Tag Archives: Literary

The Betrayal

by Helen Dunmore

Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South Asia and Europe), Helen Dunmore’s sequel to her best-selling novel, The Siege, is an enthralling tale of…

Between Us Girls

by Joe Orton

“The sudden appearance, from a void of four decades, of three previously unpublished works by the late British playwright Joe Orton is a cultural…

Big Girls Don’t Cry

by Fay Weldon

“Weldon’s clever comparisons of yesterday’s mores to today’s spice up this bubbling feminist brew, offering a study of the costs and consequences of the…

The Big Seven

by Jim Harrison

A follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Leader, The Big Seven sends Harrison’s hapless Detective Sunderson up against a family of…

The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant

by Pablo Tusset

“Engaging and occasionally even uproarious. . . . The book is a pleasure precisely because it so brazenly sloughs off responsibilities to pacing, plot…

Being There

by Jerzy Kosinski

“A tantalizing knuckleball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters.” –Time

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

by Carolyn Chute

“Chute’s novel pulses with kinetic energy. It seizes the reader on its opening page with a rhythm, a language, a knock-about country humor unmistakably…

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B

by J.P. Donleavy

“Donleavy at his best, eloquent, roguish . . . at one with his world and the terrible sadness it contains.” —Newsweek

The Beat Hotel

by Barry Miles

“An entertaining narrative about important writers now considered American literary heroes.” –Publishers Weekly

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

by Andrzej Szczypiorski

Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardice