In 1922 an 18-year-old Eric Blair, provisional police officer in the Indian Police went off to Burma. His four year…
Eng brings to life the languid last days of the British Empire in South Asia by spinning a very elaborate…
In 1961 Holland, Isabel, an extremely repressed and ignorant 30 year-old, seems destined to become a spinster. She lives alone…
A moving study of friendship and exile during the reign of Qaddafi. Khalid, a student from Benghazi, obtains a scholarship…
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…
What a strange addiction—to be so overwhelmed by a piece of art that you would do anything to possess it—or…
In this memoir-like novel with overtones of War and Peace and Proust the author has laid out the history of…
Featuring Enforcement Ranger Ben Hopper, Heller takes us on another rough guided tour in one of Yellowstone Park. In this…
Banville’s captivating prose recreates Irish life in the late 1950s with focus on the death of a young Jewish woman…