2022
December
Self-Consciousness
Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to... >>
Elizabeth Finch
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography .. >>
October
Self-Consciousness
Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie... >>
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing... >>
Surrender
As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant, punitive parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. .. >>
September
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millenniums
At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how are we to formulate moral principles to guide us in our daily .. >>
Human Kind : A hopeful History
With Humankind, the author brings that mentality to bear against one of our most entrenched ideas: namely, that human beings are by nature selfish and self-interested.
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Self - Conscious
One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer. .. >>
The Eight Mountains
Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the Dolomites, the mountain .. >>
August
Vanity Fair
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native ... >>
The Satanic Verses
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris... >>
The Zahir
Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? >>
July
The Uncommon Reader
Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week her choice proves more ... >>
Through a Glass Darkly
Donna Leon opens doors to the hidden Venice like no one else. With her latest novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, Leon takes us inside the secretive island of Murano, home of the world-famous glass factories.... >>
Putin's People
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how >>
June
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic.
When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result... >>
The Island of Missing Trees
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World... >>
Essays Too
India Davis
May
Heat Wave
In her most accomplished and appealing novel since the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger, acclaimed author Penelope Lively tells an emotionally powerful... >>
Timbuktu
Willy G Christmas, and Mr Bones embark on an adventure together, heading to Baltimore in search of Willys beloved mentor Bea Swanson - who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is she still alive?
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Homeland Egegies
A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. >>
Hamnet
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. >>