The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Paradise Lust

“Paradise Lust is a pleasure. Wilensky-Lanford tackles her subject with an appealing mix of serious research and tongue-in-cheek humor. Neither too academic nor too whimsical, the storytelling in Paradise Lust…

Road Work

“[Bowden] excels at sharply drawn, painstakingly reported stories about losers, oddballs and con men. . . . Fashioning prose that reads like good fiction, with the bonus that his stories…

Ten Men

‘smart and stylish. . . . Remarkable in the vast sea of “chick lit” for its smarts, flair and honesty. . . . Gray has given us a thoughtful character…

The Twentieth Train

‘schreiber has told an inspiring story. [She has] portrayed the quiet but forceful and effective resistance, by ordinary Belgians, Jews and Christians alike, to four years of occupation by Nazi…

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

“Meek’s rich voice and eye for detail make Kellas much more than a stock character . . . in its unsettling last pages, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent reminds…

Wild People

“[Linklater] presents anthropology without the jargon here, an honest and often humorous look at the Ibans’ way of life and that of the modern world.” –Bob MacDonald, Boston Globe…

Cold Skin

“Sentence by sentence, Piñol’s first novel offers a tightly crafted allegory of human brutality, both fascinating and repellent.” —Publishers Weekly…

The Art of Political Murder

“The Art of Political Murder is both a page-turner and a searing indictment of a corrosive brand of politics that has overwhelmed a nation . . . In these dark…

The Finance Curse

A searing indictment of global finance, exploring how the banking sector grew from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world, and showing how societies might fight…