Tag Archives: Literary

With Your Crooked Heart

by Helen Dunmore

“A briskly paced page-turner . . . Dunmore’s rich writing–by turns muscular and poetic–makes With Your Crooked Heart impossible to put down.” –The Washington…

A Woman Run Mad

by John L'Heureux

“Breathtaking . . . one of the most intense reading experiences I’ve had in recent memory . . . Impossible to put down.” –The…

The Wig My Father Wore

by Anne Enright

“A smart and piercingly sad examination of family, roots and separation. . . . Supplementing the irresistible tale . . . is Enright’s own…

Wild at Heart

by Barry Gifford

“[An] intense gem of a book. . . . The techniques polished in Gifford’s earlier novels . . . culminate in the swift brilliance…

The Wild Boys

by William S. Burroughs

“In Burroughs’ hands, writing reverts to acts of magic, as though he were making some enormous infernal encyclopedia of all the black impulses and…

The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula

by Barry Gifford

“[The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula] is imbued with charm, its snapshot characters propelling the book in bursts of manic energy. [Gifford’s] characters…

Wildlife

by Richard Ford

“Full of prose that makes the reader shiver, Wildlife is a rich and readable story, a genuine narrative. . . . It leaves a…

Winkie

by Clifford Chase

“Winkie offers readers a sort of odd, outrageous delight. A verve and a nostalgia . . . that it is no crime to indulge.”…

Winterton Blue

by Trezza Azzopardi

“Azzopardi has always created disturbing, painterly images of her characters’ surroundings and memories . . . In Winterton Blue, Azzopardi again deploys her signature…

Who’s Who in Hell

by Robert Chalmers

“Thoroughly engaging, delightful and very funny. . . . [Who’s Who in Hell] is a coming-of-age story set in a post-Thatcherite world. . ….