Spiegel & Grau

Anthropology of an American Girl

By Hilary Thayer Hamann - Published 2003Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

Literature is riddled with coming-of-age stories. The drama of adolescence lends itself to gripping narrative – first love, first heartbreak, self-discovery. One of the ...Read Review

Map of the Invisible World

By Tash Aw - Published 2010

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Adam is an orphan, several times over. First, he and his older brother were left at an Indonesian orphanage; then his brother, Johan, ...Read Review

Ruby’s Spoon

By Anna Lawrence Pietroni - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

Small, landlocked, and economically depressed in 1933, the English town of Cradle Cross isn’t a place one goes for an adventure. The main ...Read Review

Stone’s Fall

By Iain Pears - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by a number ...Read Review

The Coral Thief

By Rebecca Stott - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

Young Daniel Connor travels on a career-expanding venture to the post-Napoleonic Paris of 1815. A medical student from Scotland, Daniel carries a letter of ...Read Review

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise

By Jane Kamensky - By Jill Lepore - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

Academics Kamensky and Lepore have produced a deliciously entertaining novel of pre-Revolutionary Boston. By turns bawdy, poignant, satirical, and patriotic, it is an ...Read Review

Ghostwalk

By Rebecca Stott - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

This is a strange and intriguing book, part detective mystery, part love story, part ghost story. It is set in Cambridge from 2003 onwards ...Read Review