Hunchback, Saou Ichikawa’s provocative debut novel about a woman with a severe disability navigating desire, dignity, and autonomy, arrives in English through Polly Barton’s nuanced translation. As the first author with a physical disability to win Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Ichikawa brings a perspective that feels both revolutionary and necessary to contemporary literature. While this […]
Maid For Each Other by Lynn Painter on July 3, 2025 Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / General, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Pages: 400 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Abi is a professional cleaner, so it’s ironic when she’s forced to move […]
In her razor-sharp debut novel, Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite delivers a story that is as witty as it is disturbing. “My Sister, The Serial Killer” slices through conventional family drama to present a uniquely twisted tale of sisterly bonds, where love and complicity blend into a potent, dangerous mixture. Set against the bustling backdrop of […]
Published in 1834, Kirdjali by Alexander Pushkin tells the tale of the soldier Kirdjali and his swashbuckling adventures. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Kirdjali by Alexander Pushkin Kirdjali by Alexander Pushkin Kirdjali was by birth a Bulgarian. Kirdjali, in Turkish, means a bold […]
If romance novels were fishing expeditions, Tessa Bailey’s “Hook, Line, and Sinker” would be the perfect catch – not too light, not too heavy, with just the right amount of emotional depth to reel readers in and leave them thoroughly satisfied. As the second installment in the Bellinger Sisters series, this novel shifts focus from […]
There’s something irresistibly satisfying about watching a fish out of water find their sea legs, especially when the journey is wrapped in steamy romance and genuine character growth. Tessa Bailey’s “It Happened One Summer,” the first installment in her Bellinger Sisters duology, delivers exactly this kind of emotional satisfaction, wrapped in a package of sizzling […]
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. This post may contain affiliate […]
With Faithbreaker, Hannah Kaner delivers a searing and emotionally complex conclusion to the Fallen Gods trilogy, a series that has steadily carved its niche in the modern mythopoeic canon. Picking up the mantle from Godkiller and Sunbringer, this final installment is a storm of war cries, love lost and found, fractured alliances, and divine reckonings. […]
My desk faces a window looking out at an undeveloped section of parkland. In the winter I can see through the motley browns and golds to a path that winds along an embankment. In the summer, greenery fills in the empty spaces obscuring my surveillance of the trail but providing a lush backdrop for my office. I’m grateful for the view, but it used […]
In Sunbringer, the second installment of Hannah Kaner’s Fallen Gods trilogy, the story begun in Godkiller stretches into even darker, richer territory. Kaner, who burst onto the fantasy scene with her bestselling debut, returns not merely to expand her world but to deepen it—to thrust her characters into the crucible of trauma, politics, faith, and […]