In 1922 an 18-year-old Eric Blair, provisional police officer in the Indian Police went off to Burma. His four year…
This latest novel from Hannah (The Nightingale, The Great Alone) is an ambitious combination of a coming-of-age story and America’s…
Eng brings to life the languid last days of the British Empire in South Asia by spinning a very elaborate…
This is the fourth and final Frank Bascombe novel, and it did not disappoint. Ford and his protagonist, Frank, are…
In 1961 Holland, Isabel, an extremely repressed and ignorant 30 year-old, seems destined to become a spinster. She lives alone…
Wow – what a strange, exotic and chaotic childhood she had – the daughter of John McPhee and his first…
A moving study of friendship and exile during the reign of Qaddafi. Khalid, a student from Benghazi, obtains a scholarship…
I was so excited to read this next installment following the fabulous Harlem Shuffle (published in 2021) and even more…
The great Newfoundland storyteller has produced stories galore in this excellent saga spanning two centuries and five generations of feuding…
The Abbey of Montecassino, founded in 529 A.D. by St. Benedict and pulverized by the advancing Allied invasion of Italy…