FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Shepherd offers an intricate plot and a thousand details of the least-admirable side of Victorian life. A must-read."
Shepherd's latest detective story (
Murder at Mansfield Park, 2010) is a Victorian tour de force that borrows characters from Charles Dickens'
Bleak House and Wilkie Collins'
The Woman in White.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Binet deserves great kudos for retrieving this fateful, half-forgotten episode, spotlighting Nazi infamy, celebrating its resisters, and delivering the whole with panache. "
The evergreen allure of Nazis as the embodiment of evil is what drives this French author's soul-stirring work: a hybrid of fact and meta-fiction that won the Prix Goncourt in 2010.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Reportedly at work on a book about conservation in the Congolese rainforest, the author clearly has ambitions as big as his talent, but readers of this lyrical novel will hope he gets back to fiction soon."
Even better than his simultaneously published memoir (
Cures for Hunger), Béchard's haunting first novel follows three generations that can't find a home in this world.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Saramago writes beautifully, and his style is ruminative--not for every taste, but definitely for those who appreciate finely wrought, meditative prose."
Nobel Prize–winning author Saramago explores art and the meaning of life in a posthumous release of his first novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. "
Hailed as heroes on a stateside tour before returning to Iraq, Bravo Squad discovers just what it has been fighting for.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Talton (Deadline Man, 2010, etc.) crafts a solid mystery while telling the engrossing, sometimes poignant story of a cop with a cane who refuses to be pigeonholed."
FICTION
Released: May 7, 2012
"Emotionally unflinching stories of considerable power, wonder and humor."
A prize-winning poet (and MacArthur Fellow grant recipient) extends her literary mastery with a debut story collection.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"A novel that illuminates truths that its characters may not be capable of articulating."
FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"A gripping thrill ride that's also a thoughtful coming-of-age story. "
Journalist Miller (
Inheriting the Holy Land, 2005) makes her fiction debut with a smoldering mystery set in a New England prep school.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Woody Allen's bon mot about bisexuality is that it doubled one's chances for a date, but in this novel Irving explores in his usual discursive style some of the more serious and exhaustive consequences of Allen's one-liner. "
Billy Dean (aka Billy Abbott) has a difficult time holding it together in one person, for his bisexuality pulls him in (obviously) two different directions.
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FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"Immediate, poignant and rarely predictable, this searchingly observant work captures a huge terrain of personal aspiration against a shifting historical and social background. Impressive. "
The architecture of a family, constructed over decades, through relationships, wars and secrets, is assembled with fine detail and insight in an exceptional 20th-century saga.
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FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"It's hard to do justice to the outré and eccentric but gorgeous quality of Pilch's prose. Here he manages to pull off some neat literary tricks, frequently and self-consciously undermining the seriousness of his subjects with pricks of irony. "
A set of loosely concatenated stories that don't quite add up to a novel but are nonetheless rich in character and in the exploration of contemporary urban life in Poland.
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FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"Medoff's fully realized novel beautifully explores the most important relationships we create: as parent, as sibling, as spouse. "
Medoff's talent for characterization is evident in her latest novel, a richly layered tale about that complicated thing called family.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A slim novel with a taut narrative line and a sense of impending disaster. "
A tale of identity and tense personal relationships, one that as a film property would have appealed to Hitchcock or de Palma.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"Theroux has recaptured the sweep and density of his 1981 masterpiece The Mosquito Coast. That's some achievement. "
A joyful return to Africa turns into a nightmare for the elderly American protagonist of Theroux's extraordinary novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"At the start of the novel's coda, when Dell explains that he teaches his students "books that to me seem secretly about my young life," he begins the list with The Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby. Such comparisons seem well-earned."
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A sardonically appealing debut for a detective who assures his long-suffering grandson, "I care about people. I just don't like them.""
A geezer cowboy who's been retired from Memphis Homicide longer than he served there is thrust into the middle of a murderous hunt for Nazi plunder.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A literary page-turner."
FICTION
Released: May 29, 2012
"With dialogue that can go off like gunfire and a streak of nostalgia that feels timeless, this book takes its place among espionage novels as an instant classic."
In 1945 Istanbul, Allied veteran Leon Bauer is running spy missions under the cover of a U.S. tobacco-importing business.
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