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A gripping, contemporary echo of Joyce’s Ulysses that bursts with its own creative vigor Thom Evans’s experiences over twenty-four hours at the end of his work day bear similarities to those of his century-old predecessor from James Joyce’s Ulysses, Leopold Bloom. Like Bloom, Thom is the everyman antihero, living an unenviable humdrum life: getting chubby, […]

A moving story about a complex, intimate friendship between two unlikely people Don first meets Alice Roland at his father’s funeral, a time that is mired in grief. The sister of Don’s friend, Alice comforts Don by simply asking how he is doing, an innocuous but meaningful question. The premature death of his father has […]

A ruthless assassin returns from three years off the grid to expose the shadow organization behind his best friend’s murder in this action-packed, gadget-driven conspiracy thriller. Kai Lovac left the Assassins Guild three years ago after a betrayal on a cliff edge, and he returns only when his oldest friend, financier Ryan Manning, turns up […]

In a shuttered room in a dying house, an old woman asks her doctor to make the cat dance. He puts a fluted pipe to his lips and plays a note too high for human ears. The little green creature climbs down off her lap, rises onto its back legs, and begins stepping about the […]

Roughly halfway through Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves, a man takes a woman on a date to a house where somebody was recently torn apart. He holds the door for her. She has brought her own latex gloves and shoe covers, and she picks the lock in under three minutes while he watches with […]

An inspiring reminder that the greatest souvenirs from travel are the insights we bring home Carol McIlwain’s Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins Volume II continues the ambitious project begun in Volume I. This time, McIlwain’s collection of travel experiences evolves into something more unexpected: an attempt to understand the world through history, culture, […]

A greedy politician, a woman fighting for her family’s land—a charming fantasy about saving the magical creatures who call this place home.  When Lia’s Aunt Melissa passes away, she is not surprised to learn she has inherited the family home they have lived on for generations. She is, however, surprised to learn the land is […]

A third of the way into the new Marlon James novel, The Disappearers, the rehearsal collapses, and the seven men in the room start telling each other the worst thing that has ever happened to them. One says a friend’s house was set alight around him with people waiting at both doors, and that he […]

Roughly halfway through Emma Cline’s new novel, Switzy, a nine-year-old boy sits on the edge of his bed in a house in Marylebone and plays a symphony off his phone for his grandfather, who has asked to hear it. The orchestra is learning it for a showcase. The boy calls it the farewell symphony. Switzy […]