Previews (21 Listed volumes)
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Liam McIlvanney
Heretic
Set in 1976, seven years after the murders recounted in Liam McIlvanney’s breakout novel, The Quaker, this new Glasgow noir novel is a standalone mystery featuring serial character, Detective Duncan McCormack. McCormack has returned to Glasgow after a stint with the Metropolitan... -
Lola Lafon
Reeling
Award-winning author, Lola Lafon continues her exploration of the psyches of young girls–their fragility, their resilience. Fontenay, a Parisian suburb, 1984. Chloé is 12 when her parents prod her into taking ballet classes. She drops out after a long year of feeling lost, not classy... -
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The Passenger: Rome
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Rome doesn’t judge you by Nicola Lagioia・ The soul of the city by Matteo Nucci・ 39 memos for a book about Rome by Francesco Piccolo・Plus:... -
Sandrine Collette
The Forests
Winner of the 2020 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, a powerful novel about a man’s desperate quest to bring new life to a desolate world. Nobody wanted Corentin. Not his father, who flees as soon he can, nor the women in the village, only preoccupied with gossip, nor especially his mother, who dreams... -
David Keenan
Xstabeth
A transcendent love letter to literature and music, Xstabeth is an exciting new work from a writer who, book-by-book, is rewriting the rules of contemporary fiction. Aneliya’s father dreams of becoming a great musician but his naivete and his unfashionable music suggest he... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Winter Swallows
The tenth Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery is “endlessly surprising… a delicate balancing act between love and pain, horror and beauty.” —ThrillerNord Christmas has just passed and the city is preparing to celebrate New Year when, on the stage of a variety show,... -
Jérôme Ferrari
In His Own Image
From Goncourt Prize-winning author Jérôme Ferrari, a bewitching story of passion, death, and love, and a powerful reflection on the ambiguous relationship between art and reality Born in a small town in Corsican countryside, Antonia grows up in a place of deeply-rooted traditions and... -
Fiona Snyckers
Lacuna
“Snyckers brings Lucy to life, warts and all, in a novel that is at turns exasperating, poignant, and unexpectedly funny. Fans of Disgrace will enjoy reading this clever and wry response.”— Jane Voster, Drum Magazine -
Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Hanged Man of Conakry
Something has got Aurel Timescu’s attention: an unsolved and apparently unsolvable crime. A vacationer has been found hanged. And it is a crime that will go unpunished if Aurel isn’t ready for the fight of his life. -
Ian Williams
Disorientation
Bestselling Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these illuminating essays born from his own experience as a Black man in the world.