Fiction
The Lake’s Water Is Never Sweet
Giulia Caminito
In her English-language debut, award-winning Italian novelist Giulia Caminito follows a teenage girl as her family transitions from Rome’s impoverished outskirts to a fraught new beginning in a tranqu…
What’s with Baum?
Woody Allen
A middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baum’s turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New Yo…
The Whisper Place
Mindy Mejia
How do you find a woman who doesn’t exist? As a former police officer and a psychic detective, Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick may not be the most conventional business partners. But together, they h…
A Man in the Storm
Gaëlle Nohant
January 1917. The war drags on, grinding soldiers into the trenches while those left behind are stretched to their limits. At nineteen, Rosalie is forced to leave her boarding school, uprooted from Pa…
The White Octopus Hotel
Alexandra Bell
“Have you traveled a long way?” she asked carefully. A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Well, yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.” London, 2015. When…
Milady
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
For too long, Milady has been vilified as a ruthless power player, master manipulator, notorious liar, and dangerously beautiful femme fatale. But what if this infamous portrayal was merely the produc…
Florida Palms
Joe Pan
The Outsiders meet Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation. It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy, Cueball, an…
The Blue Place (Aud Torvingen)
Nicola Griffith
The first of Nicola Griffith’s beloved Aud Torvingen crime series. It would be so easy—a step, a smile, swift whirl and grab, and snap: done. I even knew how she would fall, what a tiny sound her last…
The Specimen: Rafael Costa
Pauline Claviere
When “Adolescence” meets “Anatomy of a Fall”. “Today’s paedophile bears little resemblance to the cliché of the clammy-handed old man in a trench coat loitering outside the school gates. In just two d…
Pig
Matilde Pratesi
Pigs are Valentina’s safe space. When she’s feeling overwhelmed, she lists the breeds from A-Z until her mind becomes quiet again. Valentina struggles to live life without order. Every morning, she re…