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Published Jun 2025
Read ReviewsPerfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros explores the power of queer joy and freedom.
by Ferdia Lennon
Published Mar 2025
Read ReviewsAn utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.
by Allegra Goodman
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsA young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this breathtaking saga, an epic story of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.
by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Published Nov 2024
Read ReviewsA young, lonely man strolls the streets of St. Petersburg contemplating his solitude when he happens upon a young woman in tears.
by Costanza Casati
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsMadeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen.
by Emilia Hart
Published Feb 2024
Read ReviewsWeaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
by Rebecca Stott
Published Jul 2023
Read ReviewsA captivating novel about two sisters fighting for survival in Dark Ages Britain that casts a thrilling spell of magic and myth.
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published Jul 2023
Read ReviewsThe author of Hamnet - New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner - brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
by Jennifer Saint
Published May 2023
Read ReviewsA spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne.
by Marcial Gala
Published Jan 2023
Read ReviewsFrom Marcial Gala, the author of the award-winning The Black Cathedral, Call Me Cassandra is a darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, who believes himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology.
by Pat Barker
Published Aug 2022
Read ReviewsA daring and timely feminist retelling of The Illiad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy.
by Mary Sharratt
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsA fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love, Revelations illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history - Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich.
by Jennifer Saint
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe.
by Natalie Haynes
Published Oct 2021
Read ReviewsShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences - for fans of Madeline Miller.
by Anna Solomon
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsFor fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day.
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published Mar 2021
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.
by Sue Rainsford
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsA haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal - one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
by Jon Clinch
Published Nov 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the acclaimed author of the "marvel of a novel" (Entertainment Weekly) Finn comes a masterful reimagining of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol with this darkly entertaining and moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
by Mary Norris
Published Apr 2020
Read ReviewsThe Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
by Edward Carey
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsThe wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
by Sarah Perry
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsFor centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters - and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.
by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsIn 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent.
by Colm Toibin
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsFrom the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children.
by Margaret Atwood
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsWilliam Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed.
by Mariko Tamaki
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsA beautiful and offbeat novel from Mariko Tamaki, co-creator of the bestselling Printz Honor and Caldecott Honor Book This One Summer.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsFrom Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to...
by Amit Chaudhuri
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsA beguiling new novel, at once wistful and ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London, each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness, and the very art of living.
by L. Jagi Lamplighter
Published Dec 2013
Read ReviewsProspero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has been captured and imprisoned in Hell, and time is running out for his daughter Miranda and for the great magician himself.
by A.S. Byatt
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWar, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark.
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