Gigantic

“[The] stories are suffused with a sort of poetry. . . . Beautiful . . . Nesbitt is smart, dark, and funny, like a young Elmore Leonard with a drinking…

Remembrance Day

Gone

A page-turning triumph from the internationally bestselling thriller author Mo Hayder—Gone is a riveting tale that pits detective Jack Caffery and police diver Flea Marley against a carjacker who is…

XPD

“A stunning spy story . . . incomparable.”—The Guardian A propulsive and wholly original novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms…

August Frost

“A magical fable . . . Roffey handles this modern-day metamorphosis beautifully; her imagery is original, the story completely beguiling.” –Eithne Farry, The Daily Mail (London)…

A Lily of the Field

Set in Vienna, London, and the United States, and spanning 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the loosely parallel lives of cellist Meret…

World Made by Hand

“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…

Word Virus

“Word Virus: The Williams S. Burroughs Reader finally brings the author’s actual writing back to the forefront. In their selections, editors James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg highlight the many faces…

Wonderland

“Bamberger spends a year learning the individual stories that make up a senior class, weaving them together for a composite portrait that, we hope, will give us a clear vision…

Truth and Bright Water

“Marvelous . . . This subtle and deceptively simple tale is an elegiac and beautiful tragicomedy about a single summer, two towns, and three Indian kids. . . . Beneath…