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This Place You Return To Is Home

by Kirsty Gunn

“Like Raymond Carver, she sketches scenes from the lives of ordinary, unhappy people with thin but vivid strokes that make the reader pause and think about what has happened.” –Nicholas…

This Is Your Life

by John O'Farrell

“A splendid satire on our celebrity hungry age. The only problem is that O’Farrell has written such funny dialogue for Jimmy that it is hard to believe that he could…

They’re Cows, We’re Pigs

by Carmen Boullosa

“A word-drunk picaresque novel . . . Boullosa’s vivid and visceral descriptions provide hallucinatory images of the pirates’ raping and pillaging, their battles in the jungle and at sea.” –The…

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

by Kenzaburo Oe

“[A] remarkable book. . . . Oe is a supremely gifted writer (and fortunate in having found Nathan as a translator.)” –Ivan Gold, The Washington Post…

Swimming in the Volcano

by Bob Shacochis

“Swimming in the Volcano provides a feast; it is a book heady with language and thick with story . . . [leaving] the reader feeling exhilarated. . . . This…

A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich

by Lucas Delattre

“For a long time hardly anyone was aware of just how courageous and determined Fritz Kolbe was in resisting the Nazi regime. . . . [A Spy at the Heart…

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

by Porochista Khakpour

“Punchy conversation, vivid detail, sharp humor . . . Khakpour brings her characters vividly to life; their flaws and feints at intimacy feel poignantly real, and their journeys generate real…

Smuggled

by Christina Shea

A vivid and deeply affecting novel about a woman’s life in Eastern Europe after she is smuggled across a critical border as a child in the waning days of WWII….

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

by Alison Weir

“Impeccable research . . . Entertaining . . . The story of England’s second Tudor monarch and his rather sordid marital life has been told often. But never has it…

The Shut Eye

by Belinda Bauer

A chilling thriller from award-winning writer Belinda Bauer, centered on a mother who refuses to believe her missing son is dead—and who gets more than she bargained for when she…