In Ilaria Bernardini’s artful novel "The Portrait", Valeria is an author who needs a jacket picture for her new collection. This becomes her excuse to enter the house where... Read More

This is a vivid, panoramic account of the first great public zoo. Isobel Charman’s "The Zoo" is an imaginatively written history of the world’s first zoo, opened in London... Read More

A U-boat commander undertakes a daring mission in this wartime novel full of tense action and romantic respite. Set in the early 1940s, just as the United States is entering... Read More