Anne Morris
Content by Anne Morris
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A.S. Byatt's novel <I>Possession</I> assured her fame first when it won Britain's Booker Prize in 1990, and recently as a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Rebecca's mother left her in a shoebox outside an Italian restaurant in 1965. Miraculously, someone found the infant before the rats did.
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If there's a straight and narrow route and all the rest is heathen mischief, Joel King, a Baptist minister involved in a sex scandal with a teenaged girl, hasn't a prayer of reaching the Pearly Gates
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Growing up in Idaho potato country with an odd Japanese mother and a pro-life American father, exotic-looking Yumi Fuller felt like "a random fruit in a field of genetically identical potatoe
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<B>A sister's farewell</B> Letters reveal hope in the face of family tragedy Elisabeth Robinson knew she would eventually write something about her sister not because of the way she die
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The baby almost died. There was no midwife in attendance at the village hut in Bangladesh, for the mother thought the birth pain was only indigestion.
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A nervous teenaged couple dumps a newborn in a box at the door of an elegant-looking country house.
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Mary Kay Andrews spoofs the secrets and lies of suburbia Mary Kay Andrews lived the research for Little Bitty Lies, her delicious new comic novel about divorce.
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How much of an artist's life can be seen in an artist's work?
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<B>Drabble's voyage of discovery</B> If Candida Wilton's husband Andrew hadn't become romantically involved with the mother of a student who drowned herself, Candida would never have le
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The punishing winds of a New Zealand winter greet Joseph Blackstone, his bride Harriet, and his mother Lilian as they settle in at Cob House, their new home fashioned out of mud and straw.
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Women who marry for safety instead of for passion take note. Marsha Moyer has written this novel for you.
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One after another, three women marry the same wrong man, each believing her life will be complete once she becomes Mrs. Ken Kimble. In a provocative first novel titled simply Mrs.
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Left alone and penniless in 1935, 18-year-old Rose Meadows accepts a position working in the New York household of the peculiar Mitwisser family.
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Last year, Jennifer Haigh impressed readers with her brilliant debut, Mrs. Kimble. With her second novel, Haigh does it again differently, but just as well.
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Fiona was in her 30s when she fell in love with her university department chairman, a powerful and married older man.
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The gentle humor of Calvin Trillin captures in a fictional tale the best and worst of New York City around the time of the millennium.
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In the prologue to her new novel, Margaret Drabble admits her debt to a volume of Korean court memoirs two centuries old.
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<B>Smiley's satire of a greedy decade</B> Joe Stratford inspires trust, even if he is a real estate agent.
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In Louis Begley's latest novel, Shipwreck, an unidentified narrator is approached by a stranger who confides a story.
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Maggie Wilson remembered what happened that night she was left for dead. Her then-husband Nate came home drunk. She could see him in the doorframe still, raising his hand to strike her.
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This may be a first novel, but Jenna Blum certainly knows how to hook a reader.
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Expect to be confused when you begin Heidi Julavits' imaginative second novel, The Effect of Living Backwards. Even the author warns of the challenges ahead for readers.
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Readers perplexed by Toni Morrison's lengthy seventh novel, Paradise, will find her new one more to their liking.
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When her lovely oldest daughter drops out of college to beg on a Toronto street corner wearing a sign that reads GOODNESS, Reta Winters' life loses all happiness.
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No sophomore slump for Christina Schwarz.
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After four years of retirement, Father Tim still hasn't come up with a good answer to the inevitable question, "So what are you doing these days?" He volunteers, chews the fat with the regulars at th
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