Spring Creek

“The waters of Spring Creek run deep with many messages, some of them sharp and others subtle, but all deftly conveyed in Nick Lyons’ vivid prose. This book represents Lyons…

A Spell of Winter

“[Dunmore] beautifully captures paranoia, how it feels to wonder if people smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even…

Sleep Talkin’ Man

What would you do if late one night your loved one shouted, “Don’t let the midget out of the wardrobe”? Based on the side-splitting viral blog of the same name,…

The Skeleton Road

A thrilling standalone from world-class crime writer Val McDermid—a skeleton found in Edinburgh’s historic center leads cold-case detectives back to war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s….

Silent Snow

“A riveting narrative as notable for its conversational fluency as for the clarity of its alarming information. . . . Cone’s superb and affecting delineation of the Arctic’s chemical crisis…

The Sexual Outlaw

River Spirit

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman’s coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th…

Seven Against Georgia

“Mendicutti’s. . . engagingly outrageous series of linked stories features seven flamboyant drag queens. . . . [These] impudent narrators are flashy, sexy, and oodles of fun. . . ….

Self-Portrait With Woman

“In Polish novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski’s radiant new work, the affairs of the heart and the world are not so very different. . . . He exhorts those of us who…

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“Zenith’s selection [of Pessoa’s writings] is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse, and another of its virtues is that it gives an account of a life that makes up in…