Professor Murray Watson is rather a sad sack. His family, his career, his affair…not even drinking offers much joy. All his energies are now focused on his research into Archie Lunan, a minor poet who drowned 30 years ago off a remote stretch of...
The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of...
“Anything we take for granted, Mr. Everett means to show us, may turn out to be a lie.” —Wall Street Journal
A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he...
Abandoned by his wife and devastated by the death of his twelve-year old son, Eddy Bale becomes obsessed with the plight of terminally ill children and develops a plan to provide a last hurrah dream vacation for seven children who will never...
A Canticle for Leibowitz meets The Hunt for Red October in Andrew Kelly Stewart’s breakout novella We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep, about a fundamentalist order of monks who control Earth’s last nuclear submarine
Remy is a Chorister, one...
Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set...
A long overdue retelling of New Grub Street-George Gissing's classic satire of the Victorian literary marketplace-Grub chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a group of young novelists living in and around New York City.
Eddie Renfros, on...
Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the most revelatory novels in recent memory. . Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly,” The Children’s Hospital is the story of a hospital preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded...