In the insightful novel "Should Have Told You Sooner", a divorced woman comes to terms with the pains of her past. A woman confronts her English past in Jane Ward’s eloquent novel "Should Have Told You Sooner", about first loves that... Read More

"Space Vault" is a philosophical future-set science fiction novel about the nature of identity and the extent to which life should be controlled. In Jeremy Clift’s heady science fiction novel "Space Vault", a mother’s love is pitted... Read More

Deep inhumanity is contrasted with the boundless potential for hope in the historical novel "Diamonds in Auschwitz". Meg Hamand’s riveting historical novel "Diamonds in Auschwitz" follows a handful of Jewish people as they navigate... Read More

The stories within "Memory Plays" are about how people reconcile truth and memory through romances, grief, the creative process, and even miracles. In Stephen Evans’s distinctive short story collection "Memory Plays", four sets of... Read More

Love is the focus of Martina Devlin’s elegant historical novel "Charlotte", about Charlotte Brontë, her husband Arthur, and Arthur’s cousin Mary, who became Charlotte’s friend and, later, Arthur’s second wife. The story is set... Read More

Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More