Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Set on a fictional Welsh island in 1938, Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor introduces its reader to eighteen-year-old Manod Llan, a lifelong islander, who feels a deep attachment to her small...
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The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Alison Anderson
At some point in recent history, the merits of reading literary fiction became inextricably entwined with the genre’s potential to instill empathy, particularly for characters whose lives are radically different from...
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Anyone who has ever watched a film with time-travel, or read a book with time-travel, or dissociated on a delayed public transport vehicle by considering the concept of time-travel, will know...
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
In Ascension is an extraordinary science fiction novel that celebrates the wonders of the universe and efforts to explore it. Published in the UK by Atlantic Books and in the US...
Clear by Carys Davies
“The Welsh writer Carys Davies has, over the course of three impeccably elegant novels to date, revealed herself as a model of restraint. Each book has been short and concise, with...
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
This novel is a swashbuckling success! Here are just a few reasons why I highly recommend it. Now, from what she could glean from the idle chatter of those passing through,...
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who watch or work or weep this night, and give your angels charge over...
Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson
Life is complicated and a part of being human is that we may not be able to manage it all perfectly, but we keep trying. We keep obsessively driving for flawlessness...
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
“In the beginning,” Lydia Millet writes in We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, “we gave names to every creature that we found … home was a garden, then—a garden...
And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events and All The Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket. In “And Then? And Then? What Else?” he...
