April 15, 2025
March 25, 2025
Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
An intimate and frank novelized version of the life and works of Emily Brontë with a wealth of material about her family and the society in which she lived. Excellent historical fiction.
February 28, 2025
No Less Strange or Wonderful by A. Kendra Greene
As varied and far-ranging as it is possible to be, this endlessly amusing and informative collection of bizarre stories and studies will keep the reader riveted to the page to the very end.
May 8, 2024
The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
An evocation of the universal immigrant crisis is a lesson to the world: we are all guilty of the crimes that motivate refugees and of the impulse to shelter and redeem them. Powerful and revelatory.
January 2, 2024
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
An unlooked-for career in antiquarian and rare bookselling brings all sorts of adventures and misadventures in the dusty, musty world of old books and the eccentric types who populate the bookselling trade. Fully engaging and enchanting, highly literary in tone and subject.
April 25, 2023
First Blood by Amelie Nothomb
At times appalling, always lively, uniformly loving, this account of the author’s father and his life experiences is a bright and interesting read, and the reader is left with a warm regard for both the subject and his biographer.
April 18, 2023
The Postcard by Anne Berest
A gripping search for the enigmatic meaning of a postcard bearing the names of relatives killed in the Nazi camps becomes a quest for personal identification and the finding of an appropriate place in the world. Absolutely intriguing.
March 25, 2023
The Wager by David Grann
A sea disaster story of the first order, this is a tale of courage, cowardice, loyalty and treachery, of unwavering dedication to duty and desperate preservation of life in spite of commitments to an imperial military power. It is a “cracking good tale”.
March 22, 2023
The Half-White Album by Cynthia J. Sylvester
A powerful collection of short works of fiction and nonfiction skillfully crafted to chronicle the lives and trials of native people living in a hostile world.
March 1, 2022