Today we welcome author David Cohen to share the story of how his new book The Hunter and other Stories of Men (a short story collection) came to be published. The Hunter is a collection of loosely linked ‘stories of men’, but…
The Hunter and Other Stories of Men Synopsis: Shortlisted for The Dorothy Hewett Award A property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a dementia care facility in…
Today we welcome author James Cristina to share the inspiration behind his new novel Antidote to a Curse. I wrote a short story, approximately ten pages, that I published years ago in an American gay quarterly magazine. I wrote this story,…
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy is Nova Jacobs debut novel. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy Synopsis: A Novel in Clues The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather,…
Fatima Mirza’s A Place for Us explores the changing portrait of an Indian-Muslim American family, and is the first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint. A Place for Us Synopsis: As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq…
Praise for Ceridwen Dovey’s In the Garden of the Fugitives “In a novel unabashedly about ideas, Dovey does not shy away from bluntly confronting big questions head-on, and yet—a testament to her skill—the book, while trembling with meaning, is neither obvious…
Less (A Novel) by Andrew Sean Greer is a life-affirming story about the writing life that I highly recommend to those with strong literary leanings. My review.
In DeSales Harrison’s The Waters & The Wild… haunted by a past crime and a past lover, a psychoanalyst tries to protect his daughter from his mistakes—but at what cost? The Waters & The Wild Synopsis: “This dazzling gothic-tinged thriller takes…
Today we welcome author Roger Averill to share with us how a series of questions and his enjoyment of biographies inspired his new novel Relatively Famous. PLUS to celebrate its recent publication 2 lucky readers will win a copy of Relatively Famous in…
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s Hotel Silence (Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize) features a perplexing protagonist and thought-provoking themes. Hotel Silence Synopsis: Jónas Ebeneser is a handy DIY kind of man with a compulsion to fix things, but he can’t seem to fix his…
Today we welcome author Mick McCoy to share with us what he learned from writing his newly released novel What the Light Reveals. PLUS readers have the opportunity to win 1 of 2 ebook copies of What the Light Reveals — entries…
Restless Souls is a strong debut from Dan Sheehan about war and loss, male friendship and the power of home. Restless Souls Synopsis Tom, Karl and Baz grew up together in down-on-its-luck Dublin. Friends since childhood, their lives diverged when Tom…
Stuart Turton’s debut novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (or The 7 1/2 Deaths in US & Canada) is the original high-concept murder mystery being described as Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Read my full review.
Call Me Zebra is award-winning young author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s second novel. There has been so much industry buzz about this title. It has featured in all the ‘most anticipated book releases’ lists and the critics have been singing…
Awarded ‘Most Underrated Book’ of 2014, Jane Rawson’s debut novel A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists. A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists Synopsis It is 1997 in San Francisco and Simon and Sarah have been…
In Boris Fishman’s debut novel A Replacement Life, a failing young Russian American journalist’s life is unexpectedly transformed when he forges Holocaust restitution claims for his rogue grandfather and his friends. A Replacement Life Synopsis: Young Russian immigrant Slava Gelman wants to…
