Sempinski Affair
The Night Circus
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: …even if you're not ready for clown shoes, you'll enjoy escaping into Erin Morgenstern's enchanting first novel…more than merely re-creating the Greatest Show on Earth, Morgenstern has spun an extravaganza that makes P.T. Barnum look smaller than Tom Thumb…Morgenstern manages to conjure up a love story for adults that […]
The Triple Agent : the Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
The Washington Post – Steve Hendricks Spy books these days are apt to start with an episode that, chronologically speaking, belongs in the middle of the book but that is so enthralling, the reader can't help but read on to see how it all ends…Joby Warrick makes a pluckier start in The Triple Agent. He […]
The Jackal’s Mistress
At Home : a short history of private life
he New York Times – Dominique Browning At Home is baggy, loose-jointed and genial. It moves along at a vigorously restless pace, with the energy of a Labrador retriever off the leash, racing up to each person it encounters, pawing and sniffing and barking at every fragrant thing, plunging into icy waters only to dash […]
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
Synopsis: Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Am?lie. Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That?s right, […]