FICTION
Released: May 3, 2011
"How could such a talented writer be led so astray? Blame the bad faerie Self-Indulgence."
Imagine a mashup of J.M. Barrie and Armistead Maupin, and you'll sense the disorienting weirdness of this third novel from Adrian (
The Children's Hospital, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: March 25, 2011
"The narrator of one story in this collection writes that, when the weather rages, communication is "reduced to hand signals with mittens." Some of this writing feels like that."
A story collection of expansive postmodernism that combines bursts of humor with flashes of tragedy.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
"Prose at its poetic best."
Foulds, who won England's 2008 Costa Poetry Prize for
The Broken Word, has written a dreamy fictional account of the year and a half when young, not-yet-famous Alfred Tennyson lived in close proximity to the mental hospital near Sherwood Forest where his brother was incarcerated along with "peasant poet" John Clare.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Though the author teaches at Vassar, these stories have a lot more punch and life than academic, creative-writing exercises."
FICTION
Released: March 22, 2010
"Watson consistently delivers that elusive element great Southern writers have always brought to the table--a delicious sense of the unexpected."
Domestic dramas, failed marriages, gunshots in the night and a dash of alien intrigue punctuate a collection of gothic tales.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2007
"A patchy, occasionally predictable collection, but Simpson and her material are, at their best, a perfect match. "
Relationships, death and motoring connect 11 pithy stories by a celebrated British doyenne of the form.
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