BOOKLOVES

Fresh starts become false ones in this thoughtful meditation on addiction, illness, and vulnerability in 21st-century America. In one sense, The Seventh City of Refuge arrives as a remix of author John Whittier Treat’s debut novel, Lambda Prize finalist The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House. Both focus on a mismatched central couple (thirty-something […]

A brightly glowing picture book about community and the magic of nature Hildi is watching snow fall on her beloved beachfront property off the coast of Maine with her dog Finn. The scene is magical and beautiful all on its own, but soon, something will arrive that goes far beyond her understanding of the magic […]

An energetic and fresh installment about a battle-hardened team geared to stop a sentient disease turning people into monsters Shifting from Ashe and his Brigands to a new set of people fighting on an entirely different front, The New Players moves beyond events in the previous two books of the Players of the Game series.  […]

Two floors beneath the reading room of the New York Public Library, a guard who has taken a liking to a regular visitor unlocks a row of oak boxes. Inside are manuscripts by Whitman, Dickens and Twain, and then the one the guard has saved for last: a quill, a razor to sharpen it, and […]

Victoria Lucchese has been sent to find the forks. Instead she opens the wrong drawer in Leona’s kitchen and finds the spices: coriander, oregano, marjoram, thyme. She knows from a library book that coriander is the seed of the cilantro plant, but she has never tasted it knowingly, so she unscrews the lid and smells […]

Seven hours into her shift as Mental Patient 17, Mara Jacobs climbs onto the back of a prop cabinet in a fake cafeteria to loom over the evening’s visitors. The group is led by a girl in a violet dress whom Mara recognises from every feed she has ever scrolled. The scare works for about […]

In the courtyard of the château, the orange trees have bronze trunks and fruit of blown glass. Beneath one of them lies a golden oriole, its belly split, as if it bit into an ornament and cut itself open from the inside. The man beside Genevieve de Vienne tells her, in English, to leave it. […]