The Commonwealth Writer's Prize-winning author of The Secret River presents a follow-up set in late 18th-century New South Wales that finds misfit Daniel hoping to find his place in life when he joins
Sorrel King was a 32-year-old mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter, Josie, was horribly burned by water from a faulty water heater in the family’s new Baltimore home. She was taken to J
Blood Safari is a harrowing novel from internationally acclaimed thriller writer Deon Meyer, an expert storyteller whose wickedly fast narratives reveal the heart of his enthralling country. In Blood
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In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty,
One of the Western world’s most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. George-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. In the
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Kay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet.
Critically acclaimed on its hardcover publication, and praised for its playful inventiveness and delightful prose, Deb Olin Unferth’s debut novel, Vacation, features three charactersa man
Describes the author's return from a stint as a war correspondent in Iraq to immerse himself into the American leisure economy, detailing his experiences in a world of gratuitous consumption, billiona
Presents a post modern retelling of a Slavic myth through the stories of a writer who grants her mother's final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day h
An epic novel of the first half of the twentieth century takes the reader to a Nova Scotian fishing town where young Henry Dorn chafes against family expectations of becoming a fisherman to find a lif
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In the midst of the German occupation, two aging intellectuals travel to a farm in the countryside looking for a respite from the claustrophobic scene in Warsaw. They quickly grow bored of their buco
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Sing Them Home is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother’s disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the s
Cedar Rivers is on a strange errand. An MD sidelined into the world of the first dot-com boom, he has come to upstate New York to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. Then a Chuck Taylor-shod
One of today’s top historical espionage writers, considered as good as Le Carré” (Chicago Tribune) and a master” (Rocky Mountain News), John Lawton adds another spe
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Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s internationally best-selling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and pala
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In Granta 103, look out for a remarkable investigation into the rise of the British jihad by Richard Watson; Binyavanga Wainaina on what it means to be Kenyan after the ravages of ethnic cleansing; I
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