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At the Water’s Edge

November 6, 2015

at the water's edge

  Water for Elephants author Sara Gruen returns with another novel set in a location that is likely to draw readers in. At the Water’s Edge takes place in a tiny village in the Highlands of Scotland, near the shores of Loch Ness…and you can guess the rest. Madeline Hyde is there with her husband Ellis and his best friend as they try and prove the existence of the Loch ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1940s, historical fiction, Scotland, WWII

White Collar Girl

November 4, 2015

  Jordan Walsh comes from a family of writers. Her father is a well-known journalist in Chicago, her mother is a poet and up until his death two years ago, her brother Eliot was poised to carry on the family legacy. Now, it is left to the young Jordan to both fulfill her dreams of becoming a reporter and to try and heal the wounds left behind by her brother’s mysterious ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1950s, book clubs, Chicago, historical fiction, NAL, women

The Improbability of Love

November 2, 2015

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  When Annie buys a painting at a junk shop in London she has no idea what she’s getting herself into. It’s supposed to be a gift for a new boyfriend but when he’s a no-show she keeps it. The now ex-boyfriend is only one more disappointment in a life that seems to be stalled, in Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, The Improbability of Love. At 31 Annie has a temporary job ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: art, debut, Knopf, literary

The Library at Mount Char

October 30, 2015

library at mount char

When Carolyn was eight, she and a number of her neighborhood friends lost their homes and families and were subsequently adopted by a man they called Father. And that’s as normal as Scott Hawkins’ debut novel The Library at Mount Char gets. The rest is a story that is wildly, imaginatively over-the-top good. You see it turns out that Father has been around for possibly 60,000 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, fantasy, magical realism, mystery

The Hours Count

October 28, 2015

hours count

  Lately, I’ve fallen into a literary rabbit hole of fiction about the 1950s, which is interesting as it’s a time period I’ve never paid much attention to, but is popping up all over the fictional world. The Hours Count is Jillian Cantor’s novel about one of America’s darkest times of political intrigue—when the hunt for Communists meant it seemed difficult to know who ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1950s, historical fiction, New York City, Riverhead Books

Slade House

October 26, 2015

slade house

  At least once in every reader’s life a book comes along where they think ‘I wish the author had written more about that.’ For fans of David Mitchell that wish often comes true, thanks to his ability to resurrect characters in different iterations and insert them in subtle ways from one novel to the next. In his last novel, The Bone Clocks, there was a supernatural ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: horror, literary, paranormal, Random House, science fiction

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