The Lost Saints of Tennessee

“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 grace and compassion. It reminded me…

Molloy

‘samuel Beckett is one of the great playwrights of our age. . . . As a novelist he is just as important. His novels, like all important works of art,…

Thunder Run

“Zucchino paints a vivid picture of the battle by stiching together the narratives of soldiers, officers, generals and Iraqis whom he interviewed during and after the war. . . ….

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

“A bona fide literary event.” –Newsweek…

Remembrance Day

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…

The Western Wind

Hailed as “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” (Telegraph) and “one of the UK’s most exquisite stylists” (Guardian), Samantha Harvey’s breathtaking new novel is a medieval mystery told in reverse over the…

The Whole Five Feet

“Disarming . . . Unpretentious . . . The Whole Five Feet reads like a charming college syllabus, written by a warm-hearted professor, who through a mutual love of books…

Playing

“Playing is an audacious erotic debut novel that chills, thrills, shocks and enthralls. Through the story of a young American woman’s love for a dark, handsome, older stranger, Melanie Abrams…

Fat Bald Jeff

‘Stella provides a lot of freshly imagined fun. . . . There are so many funny lines and scenes that even librarians may like it. As for the lumpen–they’ll love…