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The Best Fiction Book Covers of 2016
For many reasons 2016 has us wishing for either a do-over, or the anticipation to see it already gone. One thing we can't deny though is that this year has been a glorious one for fiction. But also for book covers.
Read More »Autographed Book Giveaway: ‘The Apothecary’s Curse’ by Barbara Barnett
Enter to win an autographed copy of Barbara Barnett's new novel "The Apothecary's Curse" published in October by Pyr.
Read More »Interview: Helen Sedgwick, Author of ‘The Comet Seekers’
Author Helen Sedgwick about her book 'The Comet Seekers': “I knew that I wanted to write about people making different choices, and the multiple points of view allowed me to show why each of the characters make the decisions they do. It felt like the natural way to write a book about choice, and the ways in which we are both individual and connected.”
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Other Side of Hope’ by R.F. Dunham
'The Other Side of Hope' by R. F. Dunham is a world mirroring our own, third-world Christians and first-world Muslims work to understand one another
Read More »Interview: Hannah Kohler, Author of ‘The Outside Lands’
"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Secret Chord’ by Geraldine Brooks
This novel about the biblical King David gives strong personalities to the women of the story, who in the texts are mostly merely wives, pawns, and victims. And the richness of the flowing prose matches Brooks's heightened imaginative powers.
Read More »Book Review: ‘We That Are Left’ by Clare Clark
Clare Clark's new novel 'We That Are Left' is a heartfelt story about The Great War, and a family that must come to terms with how their lives are irrevocably changed by it.
Read More »Interview: Clare Clark, Author of ‘We That Are Left’
"I think a novelist has to feel a bond with all their primary characters, has almost to love them, in spite of or perhaps even because of their flaws. Unless you feel them deeply, they never truly come alive."
Read More »Exciting new fiction hitting the shelves in November
What better way to step away from the emotional exhaustion provided by this year’s presidential elections than by pitching head first into an awesome new book.
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