FICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"Sackville writes like a dream (in all senses), conveying both the uncanny power of love and the inscrutable heartbreak of loss."
FICTION
Released: April 8, 2013
"Beguiling and bright, van Praag's (Happier Than She's Ever Been, 2011, etc.) third novel delights with deft writing and charming characters."
Each lost woman may stay for 99 nights. That's just enough time to heal a broken heart, face a demon or redirect one's entire life.
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2013
"An unassuming but far from vacuous domestic comedy, perfect for the beach or a long plane trip."
Close, whose first novel (
Girls in White Dresses, 2011) romped with recent college grads newly on their own, focuses here on two sisters on the cusp of 30, both torn between independent womanhood and lingering dependence on parents.
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FICTION
Released: April 4, 2013
"Readers might argue that the ending's a bit weak when compared to the boldness of the rest of the story, but that's a minor issue. Overall, this story's a gem."
South Africa's corrupt and disease-riddled diamond industry in the 1880s serves as a gritty setting for newcomer McVeigh's historical novel about a young English woman's journey toward self-enlightenment.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Kushner writes well and plunges us deeply into the disparate worlds of the New York City art scene, European political radicalism and the exhilarating rush of motorcycles."
A novel of art and politics but also of bikes and speed--not Harleys and drugs, but fine (and fast) Italian motorbikes.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Nevertheless, the author possesses a gift for infusing a mundane situation (an abandoned housewife) with the implausible (a mermaid) and building a story that many readers will find intuitive, clever and, on many levels, perfectly believable."
A woman drowning in self-pity and depression takes a plunge but manages to stay afloat with the help of a mermaid in this second novel by aquatic-obsessed Shearn (
How Far is the Ocean from Here, 2008).
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"An uplifting reading experience."
A heart-wrenching tale told with true wisdom and a brilliant wit that morphs into a heartwarming and inspiring experience.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Trenow, who serves as a perfect example of the old adage that you should write what you know--she's the descendant of generations of weavers--has penned a mellifluous, impeccably researched narrative."
A routine World War II romance, Trenow's debut, is distinguished by the author's smooth-as-silk delivery.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"There are incidental pleasures here but, overall, a disappointing return."
In his first fiction since the story collection
Last Night (2005), the acclaimed veteran author chronicles the life and loves of a Manhattan book editor over a 40-year period.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Written with a matter-of-fact flatness, the novel becomes indelibly unsettling as it progresses."
A metaphysically haunting, shape-shifting novel that keeps the reader off balance and can't be fully appreciated until its climax.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Boyne re-creates both Georgy's personal life and the life of pre-Revolutionary Russia with astonishing density and power."
Narrator Georgy Daniilovich Jachmenev reviews his long life, from being a servant in the household of Czar Nicholas II to his post-retirement years in London.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Impeccably written."
Award-winning British author Gardam completes her superb Old Filth trilogy--
Old Filth (2004) and
The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009)--with Sir Terence Veneering's story.
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