Elisabeth Lenckos
The Sparsholt Affair
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Art rushes in where society fears to tread. In the 1940s, a group of young men watch from the windows of their Oxford ...Read Review
The House of Remembering and Forgetting
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In 1941, Albert Weisz’s parents, in a desperate attempt to save their children’s lives, throw him and his brother, Elijah, from a ...Read Review
The Fortune Teller
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This time-traveling novel rests on an intriguing premise. An ancient Egyptian manuscript, which tells the story of a missing deck of tarot cards, ...Read Review
The Tobacconist
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When Franz Huchel travels from his serene mountain village to troubled, turbulent Vienna in 1937, it is a journey into the heart of darkness. ...Read Review
Mikhail and Margarita
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When Margarita steps from the pages of Bulgakov’s satirical masterpiece and into the author’s life, the result is pure cold war ...Read Review
Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
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This is that rare thing—a learned biography, which entertains and impresses. Love, Madness, and Scandal achieves for fans of Stuart-era England what ...Read Review
The Last Tudor
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The title of Gregory’s latest novel is intriguing, given that its plot revolves around a great irony of history: Elizabeth I’s ...Read Review
The Good Earth
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The life of Wang Lung, as told by Pearl S. Buck in her Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel of 1931, continues to stir up controversy, ...Read Review
The House of Names
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In his eleventh novel, Tóibín retells the myth of the House of Atreus and Queen Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband, Agamemnon, ...Read Review
The Spy
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Why was an adventuress, who rose to notoriety as an exotic dancer in pre-World War I Paris, executed by firing squad in 1917? Was ...Read Review
