Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I

Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Closer

“Bleak and brilliant. There can be no doubt about the power and originality of Cooper’s writing. Sheer force of style raises Closer to the level of (at least) a minor…

The Waters of Eternal Youth

In the twenty-fifth novel in Donna Leon’s celebrated and bestselling series, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a tragedy that befell a girl fifteen years earlier….

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

A powerful, important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom.

The Voices

“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and a reader with a good ear…

Triptych and Iphigenia

“To the illustrious list of names: Yeats, Joyce, Behan, O’Casey, Beckett, add O’Brien. . . . [She] uses words the way a juggler employs shiny balls, tossing them up, letting…

A Stolen Tongue

“Holman seduces you into a world of priests, rogues, saints, a world bright with horizon, wonder, piety. Her prose, tart, racy, and somber, will sing in your soul a long…

The Star of Istanbul

“The Star of Istanbul has it all: history galore, exotic foreign settings, a world-weary yet engaging protagonist, villains in abundance and a romance worthy of Bogart and Bergman.” —BookPage…

Sick Girl

“[Sick Girl] shocked me. It was a revelation. I couldn’t stop reading it. . . . It’s a book that made me shake my head in disbelief with every chapter….