Cassondra Windwalker’s contemplative novel begins with the sudden, challenging loss of a spouse. When Hayden loses his wife, Shelly, to a sudden stroke, he struggles to manage his landscaping business and take care of himself. The... Read More

Julian Hattem’s "Shelter from the Storm" is an insightful, sobering overview of the past, present, and future of human movement in the age of climate change. The book’s thesis that “We Have Always Been Climate Migrants” frames... Read More

Dani Netherclift’s sublime memoir commemorates her father’s and brother’s accidental deaths and ponders corporeality and impermanence. One scorching afternoon in 1993, Netherclift’s father and brother drowned while swimming in an... Read More

Fausta Cialente’s multifaceted historical novel "A Very Cold Winter" explores the individual and collective dynamics of an extended family as they adjust to life in postwar Italy. Though the war ended, Milan is still shadowed by... Read More

In Emanuela Anechoum’s nuanced novel "Tangerinn", a Londoner returns to her Calabrian hometown after her father’s death, seeking closure and emotional clarity. Mina grew up in a “provincial mafia-run” town near the sea. Her... Read More

In Rinny Gremaud’s fascinating novella "Generator", a woman investigates nuclear energy and her parentage. “I was born in 1977 at a nuclear power plant in the south of South Korea,” the unnamed narrator opens. She and her mother... Read More

A baker solves murders during a highland train tour in Rebecca Connolly’s charming cozy mystery novel "Mayhem on the Marzipan Express". Alan is the celebrity judge of a baking show. He promotes himself by hosting a trip for paying fans... Read More

The pulse-pounding first installment in Elizabeth May’s dark new series, "The Wolf and the Crown of Blood" includes bloody rebellion, crackling tension, and not a hero in sight. Three centuries ago, the gods were at war with the... Read More