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* Williams, Niall. Time of the Child. Bloomsbury. Nov. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781639734207. $28.99. F Readers are welcomed back to Faha, the Irish village that featured so charmingly in Williams's [...]

Campbell, Jane. Interpretations of Love. Grove Atlantic. Aug. 2024.320p. ISBN 9780802162885. $28. F [DEBUT] Campbell, who at 80 years old made waves with the story 'Cat-Brushing' and went on to [...]

Tsabari, Ayelet. Songs for the Brokenhearted. Random. Sept. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780812989007. $29. F With a broken marriage and a stalled doctoral thesis, Zohara has been drifting around Thailand when […]

* Barry, Kevin. The Heart in Winter. Doubleday. Jul. 2024.256p. ISBN 9780385550598. $28. r Award-winning Barry's (City of Bohane) newest, a genre-blending novel with romance and adventure to spare, is [...]

Aitken, Molly. The Island Child. Knopf. Jul. 2020. 352p. ISBN 9780525658375. $26.95. F DEBUT Everyone has secrets on the island of Inis off the coast of Galway. In the small [...]

Harvey, Samantha. Orbital. Atlantic Monthly. Dec. 2023.193p. ISBN 9780802161543. $24. F Four astronauts and two cosmonauts are on a nine-month mission aboard a space station orbiting Earth. Besides daily meetings […]

Murray, Paul. The Bee Sting. Farrar. Aug. 2023. 656p. ISBN 9780374600303. $30. F In a small town outside of Dublin, an economic downturn spells trouble for the once-affluent Barnes family [...]

Owusu, Derek. That Reminds Me. And Other Stories. Jun. 2023.120p. ISBN 9781913505554. pap. $16.95. F DEBUT Coming from Ghana to London as a small boy, K, the narrator of this [...]

* Gallen, Michelle. Factory Girls. Algonquin. Nov. 2022.240p. ISBN 9781643752457. pap. $17.99. F It's 1994, just before die Irish peace agreement, and 18-year-old Maeve Murray is waiting for her life [...]

Bola, JJ. The Selfless Act of Breathing. Atria. Feb. 2022. 272p. ISBN 9781982175566. $27. F Despite British Congolese Michael Kabongo's full life in London, with close friends and a good [...]

* Byatt, A.S. Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories. Knopf. Nov. 2021. 464p. ISBN 9780593321584. $28. F This mega-selection of stories by Booker Prize winner Byatt (Possession) ranges from contemporary to folk [...]

* Shriver, Lionel. The Motion of the Body Through Space. Harper. May 2020.352p. ISBN 9780062328250. $28.99. F After losing his job in the Department of Transportation, where he had been [...]

* Barry, Sebastian. A Thousand Moons. Viking. Apr. 2020.272p. ISBN 9780735223103. $27. F In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, a massacre in the Wyoming territory leaves a young [...]

* Moore, Lisa. Caught. Grove. Feb. 2014. 322p. ISBN 9780802122124. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780802192899. F Childhood friends David Slaney and Brian Hearn grow up in 1970s Newfoundland to become college […]

* Hadley, Tessa. Bad Dreams and Other Stories. Harper. May 2017. 240p. ISBN 9780062476661. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062476685. F A loss of innocence lies at the heart of these stories [...]

* Kennedy, A.L. Serious Sweet. Little A. Oct. 2016. 574p. ISBN 9781503936515. $24.95; pap. ISBN 9781503936508. $14.95. ebk. available, F Over the course of one very long day (eventually spilling [...]

* Coe, Jonathan. Number 11. Knopf. Jan. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780451493361. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780451493378. F The number 11 figures ominously in each strand of this craftily plotted novel. It [...]

* Tyler, Anne. Vinegar Girl. Hogarth: Crown. Jun. 2016. 240p. ISBN 9780804141260. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780804141277. F In Tyler's (A Spool of Blue Thread) reimagining of The Taming of the [...]

* Joinson, Suzanne. The Photographer's Wife. Bloomsbury USA. Feb. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9781620408308. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781620408322. F In 1920 Jerusalem, Prue Ashton arrives from England to stay with her [...]

Mitchell, David. Slade House. Random. Nov. 2015. 256p. ISBN 9780812998689. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780812998696. F It would have been better if Nathan Bishop and his mother, Rita, had never found [...]

* Rothschild, Hannah. The Improbability of Love. Knopf. Sept. 2015.416p. ISBN 9781101874141. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101874158. f The painting speaks! It also thinks, feels, complains, and narrates its own story--one [...]

Cartwright, Justin. Up Against the Night. Bloomsbury USA. Nov. 2015. 256p. ISBN 9781632860187. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781408858240. F In 1838, a small group of disaffected Boer colonists, led by Piet [...]

Levy, Deborah. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography: Two Early Novels. Bloomsbury USA. Jun. 2015.208p. ISBN 9781620406755. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781620406762. F These early works from Levy (Swimming Home) are [...]

Eyre, Hermione. Viper Wine. Hogarth: Crown. Apr. 2015. 432p. ISBN 9780553419351. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780553419368. F At the ripe age of 32, Lady Venetia Digby is worried that she is [...]

* Freeman, Anna. The Fair Fight. Riverhead. Apr. 2015.480p. ISBN 9781594633294. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698167971. F Born and raised in a brothel in Bristol, the lumpish and unattractive Ruth is [...]

* Cocozza, Paula. How To Be Human. Metropolitan: Holt. May 2017.288p. ISBN 9781250129253. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781250129260. F In her lonely postseparation life, Mary finds herself increasingly alienated from former [...]

* Miller, Andrew. The Crossing. Europa. Jan. 2017.336p. ISBN 9781609453473. pap. $18; ebk. ISBN 9781609453572. F Sailing is the bond that connects the spectacularly mismatched pair of Tim Rathbone and [...]

* Wilson, Rohan. To Name Those Lost. Europa. Feb. 2017. 240p. ISBN 9781609453497. pap. $17; ebk. ISBN 9781609453619. F Among the proper and prosperous residents of 1870s Launceston, Australia, are [...]

Freud, Esther. Mr. Mac and Me. Bloomsbury USA. Jan. 2015.304p. ISBN 9781620408834. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781620408841. F On the eve of World War I, in poor health and financially strapped, [...]

Bock, Dennis. The Ash Garden. Knopf. Sept. 2001. c.304p. ISBN 0-375-41302-2. $23. F More than 50 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, that event still resonates as one of the [...]

Livesey, Margot. Eva Moves the Furniture. Holt. Sept. 2001. c.233p. LC 00-143895. ISBN 0-8050-6801-5. $23. F In a departure from her psychological tales full of menacing undercurrents (Homework, The Missing [...]

Lodge, David. Thinks ... Viking. Jun. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-670-89984-4. $24.95. F Lodge has a fondness for penning novels in which the lives of his central characters are comically juxtaposed, [...]

Brookner, Anita. The Bay of Angels: A Novel. Random. Apr. 2001. c.240p. ISBN 0-375-50582-2. $23.95. F Zoe Cunningham, the latest in a long line of ruminative, solitary, and otherworldly Brookner [...]

Drabble, Margaret. The Peppered Moth. Harcourt. Apr. 2001. c.384p. ISBN 0-15-100521-4. $25. F Do our genes predetermine our family stories, or are we able to create ourselves from our own [...]

Warner, Sylvia Townsend. The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories. Counterpoint: Perseus. Jan. 2001. c.220p. ed. by Michael Steinman. ISBN 1-58243-112-4. $24. F Exuding the quaint charm of an earlier [...]

Colegate, Isabel. Winter Journey. Counterpoint: Perseus. Jan. 2001. c.220p. ISBN 1-58243-122-1. $23. F When Edith Ashby returns to the family farm to visit her brother, Alfred, an aging photographer, she [...]

Spark, Muriel. Aiding and Abetting. Doubleday. Feb. 2001. c.176p. LC 00-055559. ISBN 0-385-50153-6. $21. F After a recent foray into memoir-writing, Spark returns to more familiar territory with this speculative [...]

Fischer, Tibor. I Like Being Killed: Stories. Metropolitan: Holt. Sept. 2000. c.261p. ISBN 0-8050-6601-2. $24. F An air of menace permeates this collection of imaginatively titled stories about thirty-something Brits [...]

Davidson, Toni. Scar Culture. Norton. Sept. 2000. c.256p. ISBN 0-393-32089-8. pap. $14. F Like its literary forebears, Scar Culture is as representative of the psychiatric climate of the Nineties, with [...]

Lofthouse, Jacqui. Bluethroat Morning. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. Jul. 2000. c.304p. ISBN 1-58234-086-2. $23.95. F In the tradition of Leonard Woolf and Ted Hughes, the hero of this British [...]