Rosalba Torres Leal: The Santa of Roses by Dokali (Duke) Megharief Genre: Nonfiction / Biography / Art ISBN: 9798891325487 Print Length: 172 pages Publisher: Atmosphere Press Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Chelsey Tucker Humanity prevails, even during devastating life circumstances. Rosalba Torres Leal might be an 83-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s, but she’s got a talent that […]
Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters is a novel of uncommon weight—a historical and literary resurrection of a world on the cusp of vanishing. First serialized in Yiddish newspapers during the 1960s and 70s, and only now made accessible in a luminous English translation by Rose Waldman, this novel is more than a family chronicle. It […]
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney on January 14, 2025 Genres: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads “Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.” Author […]
In a world where apocalypses are measured in centuries and demons roam the outlands, Alix E. Harrow’s “The Knight and the Butcherbird” offers us a haunting meditation on love, transformation, and survival. This slim novella punches well above its weight, delivering a story as devastating as it is hopeful, told in prose that cuts like […]
From espionage classics by Len Deighton and John le Carré to modern day standouts from Mick Herron and David McCloskey, we’ve selected 10 Gripping Spy Books to Read. Enjoy! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. 10 Gripping Spy Books to Read Table of Contents […]
Belinda Bauer has always possessed an uncanny ability to merge the macabre with the mundane. In “The Impossible Thing,” Belinda Bauer returns to this territory with aplomb, delivering a crime novel that spans a century and explores how a simple object—in this case, a blood-red guillemot egg—can inspire obsession, greed, and murder across generations. The novel […]
In Rubbernecker, Belinda Bauer performs her own kind of anatomy—dissecting the mystery genre with clinical precision while simultaneously breathing life into it. This 2013 crime novel skillfully weaves together multiple narratives around death, deception, and discovery, creating a reading experience that’s as unsettling as it is compelling. The story centers on Patrick Fort, a young […]
When Canaries Die by Luis Figueredo Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense / Legal ISBN: 9798890222268 Print Length: 364 pages Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Erin Britton Is the law really the best weapon for tackling the deadly consequences of a border crisis and a global pandemic? A fast-paced, frequently troubling, and often shocking legal thriller, Luis […]
Let’s Get Together by Isaac Asimov was originally published in the Feb 1957 issue of Infinity Science Fiction, and later included in the collection The Rest of the Robots in 1964. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Let’s Get Together by Isaac Asimov Let’s […]
Stuart Nadler’s Rooms for Vanishing is less a conventional historical novel and more a haunted requiem of memory and loss. Spanning decades and cities—from Vienna to Montreal, London to California—it tells the story of a Jewish family forever disassembled by the violence of the Holocaust and the dissonant aftermaths of war. Nadler, previously known for […]