Christina Nellas Acosta
Arnold & Igor
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To the non-specialist reader, a novel saturated in names, events, terms, and compositions of any period of music history poses a challenge. Add ...Read Review
This Strange Eventful History
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This Strange Eventful History, inspired by the author’s grandfather’s memoir, is organized into seven decades, 1940–2010. The first half avoids showing the ...Read Review
Elaine
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From the first paragraph onward, close readers know they are in the mind of a master writer, in the intellectual housing of a ...Read Review
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
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“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year?… Are you aware that you are ...Read Review
Crook Manifesto
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Second in a trilogy, Crook Manifesto is a brisk ride that tears through 1970s Harlem until each projected act of violence erupts mid-paragraph, ...Read Review
The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency
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Lydia Travers’s title The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency echoes that of the best-selling, twenty-five-year series by Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies ...Read Review
The Romantic
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The Romantic, William Boyd’s seventeenth novel, takes the form of a personal narrative and life story. A sweeping adventure covering almost an ...Read Review
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
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Jane Austen’s title Northanger Abbey is dropped early in The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, but Hester Fox’s latest novel is ...Read Review
The Fourth Enemy
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Following up Perry’s longer-running Pitt series, this sixth in the Daniel Pitt series opens on a cozy domestic scene of father-daughter and ...Read Review
Maddalena and the Dark
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In 1717 Venice, two girls, Maddalena and Luisa, secretly share a bed at the Ospedale della Pietà, home for foundlings and music school for ...Read Review
