Reviews of books we think are newsworthy, cool and interesting
This month's selection includes a “rollicking, retro seafaring adventure” and a thriller with "a breathless conclusion," among other gems.
Scars is a beautifully-structured lesson in humility and perspective, accented with sparkling, if dark, humor.
An Icelandic man is sentenced to live out his life on a bleak and uninhabited island after being convicted of sorcery in the new novel from Iceland's Sjón.
Ingrid Winterbach's new novel translated from the Afrikaans, The Book of Happenstance, leaves the reading waiting for a resolution or dramatic action that never comes.
Norwegian Kjersti Skomsvold's novel - The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am - just might change the way you interact with people you've always ignored.
Push all other books aside and clear a few hours for Alina Simone’s You Must Go and Win!. Of all the books I read this summer, it was by far the most fun.
The fantastic first line of a fantastic first novel: Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down South to kill a man.
Yvvette Edwards’s Booker longlisted novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats, is an elegantly structured story of guilt and redemption, and one of the best of year.
A review of Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, an impressive debut novel filled with exuberance that’s rare and a joy to experience.
Never over-sentimental, Please Look After Mom succeeds as a sensitive and powerful examination of the selflessness of parental love.
