Kristen McDermott
Woman Enters Left
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Fans of “on the road” stories will love this dual-period novel, which follows two friends, aspiring writer Florrie Daniels and abandoned housewife Ethel ...Read Review
The Jane Austen Project
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Part science fiction, part fan fiction, this enjoyable adventure takes a common fantasy—traveling into the past to meet one’s favorite author—...Read Review
Mozart’s Starling
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Like its two subjects – Mozart and the European Starling – this natural history is virtuosic, lively, affectionate, and entertaining. Haupt offers a deep dive ...Read Review
The Stolen Child
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This mesmerizing novel, set on an isolated, rocky island off the west coast of Ireland in 1959, fairly pulses with passion and magic. Carey ...Read Review
The Devil’s Bible
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Carpenter’s follow-up to The Bohemian Gospel is similarly crammed with theological mystery and suspense, as we find her protagonist, Mouse, still alive ...Read Review
A Tale of Two Maidens: A Medieval French Story of Fate, Adventure, and the Hundred Years’ War
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The history of Jehanne la Pucelle, or Joan of Arc, is often told, but Echols has chosen a fresh perspective in her narrator, ...Read Review
The Wicked City
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Two young women find love in the face of disaster in the same shabby-chic Greenwich Village apartment: Ella in 1998 and Ginger in 1924. Strains ...Read Review
Purged by Fire: Heresy of the Cathars
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The history of the Cathar heretics in 13th-century France is both fascinating and tragic, and they make attractive subjects for historical fiction because ...Read Review
Pirate Utopia
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In this fantastical alternate history novella, Sterling, better known for his pioneering work in science fiction, imagines what would happen if the artistic/...Read Review
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Elaine Scarry, a celebrated literary scholar known for her interdisciplinary approaches to the study of poetry, culture, philosophy, and art, has joined Oscar ...Read Review