A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics) | Sybille Bedford | A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their di
Matrix | Lauren Groff | Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France
North, Anna | Outlawed | In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves wor
Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in ‘Donoghue’s best nov
V.E. Schwab | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s gen
Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita
Renée Dahlia | Her Lady’s Honor | The war might be over, but the battle for love has just begun.
When Lady Eleanor “Nell” St. George arrives in Wales after serving as a veteri
Sherwood Anderson | Poor White | Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is li
Francine Prose | Lovers At the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | Paris in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats,
Katharine Beutner | Alcestis | ‘A novel that is as intoxicating and hypnotic as the sacred smoke inhaled by the oracles.’– Elizabeth Knox , author of The Vintner’s Luck and The Dre