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About Tropic of Violence
Kirkus Reviews : Tropic of Violence (May 15, 2020)Searing, lyrical, and ultimately devastating, Appanah’s latest novel might be her finest yet.
$ 9.99
About The Other Bennet Sister
The Guardian : The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow review – what happened to Mary after Pride and Prejudice (January 11, 2020)In The Other Bennet Sister, Hadlow builds an immersive and engaging new version of a familiar world; her approach feels at once true to the source material and to life.
$ 14.99
About Untold Night and Day
The Guardian : Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah review – surrealism in Seoul (March 18, 2020)To read this novel of shrouded pilgrimages is also to arrive at a meaning that is “bewitching, and utterly private, a secret for me, a single ship, a single concealed place”.
$ 18.65
About The Dominant Animal
Publishers Weekly : The Dominant Animal (May 15, 2020)This is a delightful, mischievous, and mysterious collection that’s perfect for fans of Lydia Davis and Mary Ruefle.
$ 9.99
About Strange Hotel
Financial Times : Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride — finely controlled and complex (January 31, 2020)Strange Hotel is a finely controlled, complex and emotionally absorbing novel that manages to burrow deep into the heart of something essential about the human experiences of love and loss.
$ 11.99
About Strange Hotel
The Guardian : Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride review – an immersive inner journey (February 05, 2020)Reading Strange Hotel is indeed a matter of strange immersion, and one that will often puzzle and sometimes frustrate the reader, but its portrait of sadness and alienation is, in the end, also strangely revivifying.
$ 11.99
About Sharks in the Time of Saviors
The New York Times : The Hawaii of ‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors’ Is Modern, Yet Mystical (March 30, 2020)Washburn has given us a meditation on the tragedies of living too long in the darkness.
$ 13.99
About The Book of V.
The New York Times : Multiple Women, Three Centuries, One Far-Reaching New Novel (May 05, 2020)“The Book of V.” is a meditation on female power and powerlessness, the stories told about women and the ones we tell about and to ourselves.
$ 14.99
About Fracture
Kirkus Reviews : Fracture (March 01, 2020)A quiet study of a man struggling to find a serenity to quell his long-entrenched terror.
$ 14.99
About The Life and Medieval Times of Kit Sweetly
Kirkus Reviews : The Life and Medieval Times of Kit Sweetly (May 06, 2020)A rousing, funny, feminist workplace romp that also takes a frank look at modern poverty.
$ 9.99
About Like Flies from Afar
Kirkus Reviews : Like Flies from Afar (January 15, 2020)Though ultimately unsatisfying as a mystery, it works as an existential parable, with a protagonist whose character is destiny.
$ 11.99
About Telephone
Kirkus Reviews : Telephone (May 05, 2020)This is a spellbinding, heartbreaking tale.
$ 9.99
About Cleanness
The New York Times : In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive (April 30, 2020)Greenwell’s book is a sort of wistful paean to the place where his protagonist lived in uneasy exile, or learned to grow up, or both.
$ 13.99
About Barn 8
The Guardian : Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth review – the great chicken heist (April 18, 2020)Although the book is uneven, the things in Barn 8 that work are so aesthetically perfect and philosophically profound that it doesn’t matter much if the caper plot falls a little flat.
$ 9.99
About Great State
Kirkus Reviews : Great State (March 20, 2020)With useful maps and stories within stories, this is an ingenious look at an often misunderstood country.
$ 16.99
About No Bad Deed
Bookreporter : No Bad Deed (March 01, 2020)If you enjoy books that keep you on edge, wondering how things will work out, then No Bad Deed is perfect for you. There are twists, followed by more twists, and plenty of excitement and mystery.
$ 14.99
About The Only Child
Bookreporter : The Only Child (February 22, 2020)In addition to The Bad Seed, THE ONLY CHILD carries overt references to The Silence of the Lambs. It’s easy to imagine this suspenseful, multilayered novel being adapted into a pretty sinister film in its own right.
$ 11.99