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Beatlebone

Kevin Barry

A New York Times Notable Bookxa0• Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize “ Beatlebone is a novel that takes its reader to...

Life After Forty

Dora Heldt

About the Author Dora Heldt was born on the North Sea island of Sylt, Germany. She works as a publisher’s sales...

Jane Was Here

Sarah Kernochan

Publishers Weekly, May 9 2011:The sudden appearance of a young woman called Jane in rural Graynier, Mass., propels this...

1 STATION AWAY

Olaf Olafsson

Review “...A remarkably tender, touching exploration of a man’s emotional journey to reconcile the past with the...

There But For The: A Novel

Ali Smith

A Washington Post Notable Book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011 “There but for the is a brilliant title...

Butterflies in November

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

With subtle prose and sardonic humor Olafsdottir upends expectations." — Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times "Quirky and...

Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre

Tracy Chevalier

From the Back Cover This collection of original stories by today’s finest woman writers takes inspiration from the...

Nice Girls: A Novel

Catherine Dang

Dang captures the surface cynicism a young college student like Mary would adopt to mask the flameout of potential,...

Dead On Arrival

Matt Richtel

“An intellectual thrill ride that tucks searing social critique into the Trojan horse of a save-the-world...

England, England (Vintage International)

Julian Barnes

A treasure chest of wordplays, ironic imagery and gemlike phrasing that's sure to amuse." — The Wall Street Journal...

The Fourth Child: A Novel

Jessica Winter

Jessica Winter’s sophomore novel is Franzen-esque in its broad sweep of a Rust Belt family coming down off the highs...

The Dead Man Volume 1: Face of Evil, Ring of Knives, Hell in Heaven

Lee Goldberg

“I don’t like horror novels. I don’t much care for the fantasy genre. And buckets of gore put me off. So how come...

Sad Janet: A Novel

Lucie Britsch

Praise for Sad Janet : “Witty .xa0.xa0.xa0surprising and irreverent .xa0.xa0. Be prepared for edginess [and] dark...

The Life of the Mind: A Novel

Christine Smallwood

“One of the wittiest, most deliciously farcical novels I’ve read in a long time.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR, Fresh...

L'Herbe Des Nuits [ Prix Nobel 2014 ] (French Edition)

Patrick Modiano

Book Description "Pourtant je n'ai pas rêvé. Je me surprends quelquefois à dire cette phrase dans la rue, comme si...

Indelicacy: A Novel

Amina Cain

Indelicacy is a short book but it feels brilliantly expansive to read. Cain writes beautiful precise sentences about...

Love Has Many Faces

Lisa Morgan

Shocking and eye-opening, heart wrenching and thrilling. I'd highly recommend. Claire Burgess comments, "Absolutely...

The Gingerbread House

Kate Beaufoy

Gripping, heartbreaking, funny, surprising— The Gingerbread House is all of these, and a lot more." —Roddy Doyle,...

Speculation

Edmund Jorgensen

Edmund Jorgensen's Speculation harkens back to the days of heavyweight fiction--to the novels of Bellow and Mailer and...

The Light of Amsterdam: A Novel

David Park

From Booklist Park follows his award-winning, politically hard-hitting novel The Truth Commissioner (2008), about the...

The Drowning House: A Novel

Elizabeth Black

“[Black] possesses elegant descriptive powers ... The honky-tonk allure of Galveston's Strand district ... comes...

Vacuum in the Dark: A Novel

Jen Beagin

Praise for Vacuum in the Dark " A follow-up to the riotous Pretend I'm Dead, this is what a sequel should be: darker,...

So Much Pretty: A Novel

Cara Hoffman

One of the top ten 'First Fiction' of 2011. - Publishers Weekly"...dark and chilling... [A] gripping novel..." -...

The Odd Women (Broadview Literary Texts)

Patricia Ingham

Review “When it comes to the complexities of everyday life in late-Victorian London, there is no better guide than...