Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin (translator Hildegarde Serle)
Published in 2020, by Europa Editions UK, Fresh Water for Flowers is Valérie Perrin’s English debut. It is one of the best novels I have read in 2021; a triumph that...
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
At the end of my fourth-grade year, in 1956 when I was ten, my father borrowed money from my grandfather to purchase the former Homelawn Hotel and convert it to a...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Recently, I’ve met a few individuals who have been inspired to start reading mysteries after watching terrific PBS Masterpiece series such as Unforgotten, The Bletchley Circle, and Grantchester. Never having read...
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Etaf Rum’s powerful debut novel, A Woman Is No Man reveals the lives of three generations of Palestinian-American women told in primarily two time periods (1990 and present day). Through these...
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
The crime at the heart of this novel occurs in 1826 in London: Frannie Langton is accused of the brutal double murder of her employers George Benham, who is a famous...
The Grief We’re Given: Poems by William Bortz
In April 2021, just after I’d received my second Pfizer vaccine but before I’d begun to feel comfortable with face-to-face get-togethers, I received this beautiful hardcover book of poetry in the...
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
“As far as he could see, the land stretched out, deep and open, all the way to the desert. A perfect sea of nothingness. If someone was looking for oblivion, that...
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
A Beautifully Written Tribute to Those Who Fought for Social Justice I loved this historical fiction novel as much as The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash. And that’s enormous praise! Both...
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James
Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,Balm...
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
This is the story I wish I had written. Like its characters, The House in the Cerulean Sea is more than the sum of its parts. It’s magical, but, like its...
