Monique Roffey‘s The Mermaid of Black Conch, winner of the 2020 Costa Book of the Year Award, is a gripping dark fairy tale that any fan of contemporary fantasy will happily swim through.
A nonlinear novel focused on the transient nature of life could have been depressing, but Andrew Holleran‘s thoughtful, poetic treatment makes The Kingdom of Sand one of the most beautiful novels of the year.
With Horse, Geraldine Brooks returns to themes she explored so well in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March.
A singer-songwriter faces questions of fame and fertility in Elisa Albert‘s novel Human Blues, an emotional, life-affirming howl into a wild world.
Reading Alice Elliott Dark‘s second novel is a transportive experience, similar to spending several long, luxurious summers on the shores of a picturesque Maine peninsula.
With haunting prose and deeply atmospheric descriptions, Conner Habib‘s Hawk Mountain is a disturbing descent into the convulsions of the human mind and heart.
The complexity of Sister Mother Warrior suits the complicated, difficult history of the Haitian revolution, which Vanessa Riley brings to life through the stories of a soldier and a future empress.
Katherine J. Chen‘s Joan leaves behind the pious maiden, her visions and voices. This Joan of Arc is hungry, earthy and scrappy—a natural fighter.
There‘s joy to be found in the struggle, and Eleanor Brown‘s novel about an unusual adoptive family is a thoughtful exploration of this truth.
A quick read with irresistible charm, Margarita Montimore‘s Acts of Violet is a comfort book in every sense of the word.
The fifth novel from award-winning British novelist Ned Beauman is a mid-apocalyptic comic thriller ideally suited for a post-pandemic audience.
Within the bruised and bruising world of Christine Kandic Torres‘ novel, two girls find that being harassed, belittled or ignored is just part of life—until one of them can‘t take it anymore.
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