Got an editor yet? You need one. You know this already. You’ve heard hundreds of people shouting from the tops of buildings (or Facebook Groups) that you need a real person (not named you) to edit your books. AI is cool and all (sometimes), but it’s no substitute for the trained human eye and mind. (Don’t believe me? […]
A deeply intimate novel—a devastating portrait of love, memory, family implosion, and all the good and bad we inherit “Cycling is what I did. Part of my DNA. For years it was Becks and me together pedalling all over the land by the pond. Exploring fields down to Church Crookham, finding shacks and building sites. […]
A tantalizing Nigerian-flavored collection that baffles and entices with its inventive blending of the fantastical and the everyday The stories comprising In Wonder, Your People, aside from some recurring names and locations, have little in common with each other. However, one element consistently emerges: a wistfulness often stemming from regret—not from characters wallowing in it […]
Some books arrive like a slow tide. Others crash on you in one wave. Our Perfect Storm does both, which feels right for a novel set on the wild edge of Vancouver Island, where the weather flips in seconds and the trees are old enough to outlast any heartbreak. This is Carley Fortune’s fifth full-length […]
Danish authors have left remarkable footprint in the world of literature despite it being a small county and Danish not being a widespread language. Enjoy 6 Best Danish Books to Read in English! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. 6 Best Danish Books to […]
Synopsis: Chance Cormac faces a personal and professional crisis as he loses faith in the law and himself. He abandons his practice and life in Brooklyn to volunteer to represent illegally detained immigrants throughout the country. From the federal courts to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador, against all odds, Chance struggles to rescue […]
Some kids try to be good. Roosevelt Banks negotiates with the concept like it’s a contract he might be able to loophole. Laurie Calkhoven’s Roosevelt Banks: Good-Kid-in-Training drops readers straight into the mind of a fourth grader whose moral compass works—but only after a lively internal debate. Roosevelt isn’t a “bad” kid in the traditional […]
A tense exploration of loyalty, courage, and the human cost of living on opposite sides of an inherited divide C. Anne’s The Gap presents a world divided by both geography and history. Two communities exist side by side yet remain separated by deep mistrust and a mysterious boundary known as the Gap. Though the physical […]
Fourteen years after The Help parked itself on every book club coffee table in America, Kathryn Stockett has finally come back with another novel set in the same red-dirt corner of the South. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett trades the Jim Crow kitchens of 1962 Jackson for the Depression-era streets of Oxford, but the […]
Seductive, volatile, and laced with danger, The Artist and Her Lover dares you to fall. In this novel, desire is never quiet; it arrives passionate and complicated. The Artist & Her Lover: Part III opens not with a gentle unfolding, but with a collision of grief, ambition, and temptation, placing its heroine in a world […]