The Overlook Press

W.: A Novel

By Steve Sem-Sandberg - Published 2022

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

W. is based on the 1821 true crime story of Johann Christian Woyzeck of Leipzig, who murdered his lover in a jealous rage and ...Read Review

The Reindeer Hunters: The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 2

By Deborah Dawkin (trans.) - By Lars Mytting - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Butangen, Norway, 1903: two decades have passed since the events recounted in Mytting’s first novel in his Sister Bells trilogy, The Bell in ...Read Review

Comrade Koba: A Novel

By Robert Littell - Published 2020

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Ten-and-a-half-and two days-old Leon Rozental and his friends are on their own, scrounging for rubles to pay for meals, exploring tunnels between the ...Read Review

The Bell in the Lake

By Lars Mytting - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Mytting has a thing about wood. He is the author of the best-selling non-fiction book Norwegian Wood, and his first novel was The ...Read Review

Caging Skies

By Christine Leunens - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Like many Viennese boys of the late 1930s, Johannes Betzler joins the Hitler Youth, in which he takes great pride, and swallows the ...Read Review

A Question of Trust

By Penny Vincenzi - Published 2018

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Penny Vincenzi has written another drama of numerous interlinked characters in her final novel, which takes place in London between 1936 and 1955. We follow ...Read Review

Something Dangerous

By Penny Vincenzi - Published 2001Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

Something Dangerous is the second novel in Vincenzi’s Spoils of Time trilogy featuring the Lytton family and their London publishing house, now ...Read Review

Owen Glendower

By John Cowper Powys - Published 2003

Genres:

Saga

  Originally published in 1940, this grandly written epic recounts the adventures of Rhisiart, a 15th century Oxford student who returns to the land ...Read Review

Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell

By Howard Engel - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

With this book, Arthur Conan Doyle joins the ranks of authors as detectives, but unlike Jane Austen et al., Conan Doyle seems more ...Read Review

No Angel

By Penny Vincenzi - Published 2001Published 2003

Genres:

Saga

No Angel is the first volume in Vincenzi’s Spoils of Time trilogy (all three volumes have been published in the UK) and ...Read Review