Cities

Declared “the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of the city” (The Times, London), this is a magisterial exploration of these defining artifacts of civilization….

The Circle of Hanh

“Weigl keeps his readers in cliff-hanging suspense. . . . So powerful is his writing that readers, too, will live among these words. They may not find salvation there, but…

Beyond the Game

“A book you should read . . . Smith weaves stories of heroes and anti-heroes alike with grace and compassion, getting inside his subjects in a way that makes you…

A Refiner’s Fire

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was

The Explorers

Among the Dead

“Forceful . . . moves forward relentlessly like a very commercial film or a very hungry shark.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times…

Light

“Richly detailed . . . Elphinstone takes genuine pleasure in her imagined reality. . . . She bestows on all her characters strengths and flaws, creating a remarkably convincing reality….

Wandering through Life

The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties

The Best of It

“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood…

City of Night

“One of the major books to be published since World War II.” —The Washington Post…