Tag Archives: Literary

Lyrics Alley

by Leila Aboulela

“Haunting . . . Keeps the reader gripped.”—Anita Sethi, The Sunday Telegraph (UK) The evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the…

Love and Death on Long Island

by Gilbert Adair

“A very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic’s introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture.” –Nick Hornby

Love Life

by Zeruya Shalev

“Love Life moves with a naturalness and grace that mirrors life’s complexity, and offers a brutally honest and often brilliant tour of individual and…

The Loved Ones

by Mary-Beth Hughes

The break out new novel by New York Times Notable Author Mary-Beth Hughes follows a small family in the aftermath of love and disgrace…

Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Philip McFarland

“Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of the great heroines of American history, and Philip McFarland brings her to life in all her glory, in…

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon

by Tom Stoppard

“Zany, aphoristic and flashy . . . a remarkable entertainment, remarkably funny.” —The Washington Post

Lord of the Barnyard

by Tristan Egolf

“Lord of the Barnyard is an arctic blast of fresh air and a far cry from the formulaic writing so prevelant in much contemporary…

Lost Nation

by Jeffrey Lent

“Lent is a skillful and confident storyteller, evoking the seasons, the dampness of the bogs and the muck and the madness that sometimes affects…

Lost Paradise

by Cees Nooteboom

“Elegant, subtle intelligence . . . cool, intellectually sophisticated, ironic . . . Nooteboom is a careful prose stylist of a notably philosophical bent.”…

The Lost Saints of Tennessee

by Amy Franklin-Willis

“The gifted novelist Amy Franklin-Willis has written a riveting, hardscrabble book on the rough, hardscrabble south, which has rarely been written about with such…