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Review: ‘Amanda’ charts love found, lost and (maybe) found again
Fiction: It’s an intoxicating drama about two damaged individuals finding love in post-World War I England.
September 25, 2025
Review: ‘World Pacific’ is a twisty, rollicking adventure
Fiction: It’s a riotous novel about an author-adventurer caught in a web of intrigue during the outbreak of World War II.
August 18, 2025
'Death at the White Hart' is a tricky novel from 'Broadchurch' creator
A murder in a coastal English village is the setting for "Doctor Who" showrunner Chris Chibnall's atmospheric debut novel.
June 10, 2025
Review: An Irish family takes in ‘The Boy From the Sea.’ What could go wrong?
Fiction: A baby in a barrel washes ashore in an Irish fishing town in this emotionally powerful debut.
April 28, 2025
Review: Jonathan Coe skewers fellow Brits in ’The Proof of My Innocence'
Fiction: A clever and compulsive novel that blends murder mystery and political commentary.
April 7, 2025
A priest and his team foil Nazis in ‘The Ghosts of Rome’
Fiction: Joseph O’Connor crafts a gripping drama about an underground group helping refugees flee Nazi-occupied Rome.
January 27, 2025
Acclaimed writer Caryl Phillips returns with another story of an immigrant, struggling to fit in
Fiction: “Another Man in the Street” is an engaging novel about a West Indian trying to make his way in 1960s London.
January 1, 2025
In ‘The Rest Is Memory,’ a photo drives novelist to imagine the life of girl who died in Auschwitz
Fiction: This blend of research and imagination is a masterful, devastating, portrait of a Polish girl.
December 2, 2024
Review: Love animals? You’ll love them even more after reading about their wonders in ‘Vanishing Treasures.’
Nonfiction: A delightful collection of essays on some of the world’s most endangered animals.
November 7, 2024
‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ writer is back with ‘Dogs and Monsters’
Fiction: It’s a masterful collection of richly inventive stories, inspired by myths and legends.
October 9, 2024
‘Leave the World Behind’ (basis of the Julia Roberts film) author returns with ‘Entitlement’
FICTION: Rumaan Alam’s latest is an astute novel about a young woman who unravels when she helps a billionaire philanthropist give away his fortune.
September 13, 2024
Look for callbacks to Stephen King in gritty ’House of Bone and Rain’
FICTION: A compellingly gritty novel about five Puerto Rican teenagers out for revenge when one of their mothers is killed.
July 31, 2024
