E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | When Quoyle’s two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland
Lucie Marchal | The Mesh | ”I hated her when I first saw her. She was so passive, so voluptuous, so unlike me. Then something changed me. Alone with her I was filled with a joy
Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries
Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s Inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu
Jo Sinclair | Wasteland | Wasteland is the story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his h
Julie Anne Peters | Define ‘Normal’ | Now in its fourth hardcover printing, Define ‘Normal’ has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. This is a thoughtful, wry story about two girls-a ‘punk’
Linnea A. Due | High and Outside | Star of her school softball team and with the highest point average in her class, Niki nonetheless has a severe drinking problem, and after nearly sel
Gertrude Stein; Renate Stendhal | Gertrude Stein | ‘After an astonishing, playful essay, the book opens into a revelatory combination of quotes, quips and 360 photos of Stein and her wildly brilliant c
Diana Souhami | Wild Girls | Natalie and Romaine met in London during World War I and their partnership lasted until Natalie died 52 years later. They were both American expatriat
