Appleby House is Sylvia Smith’s delightful, refreshingly candid account of a year spent in a
shabby bed-sit in1980s London’s East End.Smith’s engrossing, understated narrative invests the story of shared living: shifting allegiances, cleaning negotiations, debates about whose turn it is ...
The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks,
her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up ...
From the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes this “gripping” (The Miami Herald) ...
collection of true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, ...
A Seattle Times Best Book of the YearIn Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered
actuary takes a risk of his own and makes the biggest error of his life: He sleeps with Diane Burroughs, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au ...
A New York Times Notable BookA warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives.... Some
[stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable. —The New York Times Book ReviewOne of our best storytellers. —San Francisco ChronicleBaxter lovingly ...
An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and
a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a ...
Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in
FranceLike a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in ...
A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St.
Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth ...
