The Dead Republic
Library Journal Doyle's latest concludes the saga of Henry Smart, the Irish revolutionary first introduced in A Star Called Henry (1999) and revisited in Oh, Play That Thing (2004). Here, the Irish rebel is older, perhaps wiser, and alive after having once again cheated a certain death. Opening in the 1940s and concluding in 2010, […]
The Black Cat : a Richard Jury Mystery
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson Grimes can be many things?literate, lyrical, funny, funky, discursive, bizarre?but she is never clunky. Sometimes, reading her, you think you've stumbled on an improbable fusion of Agatha Christie and Monty Python, but that, in moderation, is not an unpleasant experience?This is, let it be said, a monumentally whimsical novel. […]
The Bright Sword
Angelology : a Novel
The New York Times – Susann Cokal ?an elegantly ambitious archival thriller in which knowledge dwells in the secret underground places, labyrinthine libraries and overlooked artifacts that have been hallmarks of the genre from The Name of the Rose and Possession to Angels and Demons and The Historian. Angelology is richly allusive and vividly staged, […]
Miss Julia Renews Her Vows
Publishers Weekly Southern flower Miss Julia re-materializes in her droll 11th adventure, and this time out, the busybody is as busy as ever: she wraps up some business from Miss Julia Delivers the Goods by making sure thrice married rogue Mr. Pickens settles down with Hazel Marie, who is pregnant with their twins. She also […]
Committed : a Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
The New York Times – Curtis Sittenfeld By the end Gilbert had?convinced me that "the book that I needed to write was exactly this book." Because really, in the wake of Eat, Pray, Love, wasn't she damned if she did and damned if she didn't? If this book were too similar to that one, some […]
Stones Into Schools : Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, In Afghanistan and Pakistan
The New York Times – Janet Maslin Much of Stones Into Schools hinges on the logistical challenges, but this book is also suffused with its author's unorthodox tactics and distinctive personal style?It also colorfully describes the local sidekicks and power brokers without whom, [Mortenson] says, "I would still be nothing more than a dirtbag mountaineer […]
The Brightest Star In the Sky
Library Journal This appealing novel by the author of This Charming Man explores the lives and loves of the residents of a Dublin town house by way of a wandering spirit. At its heart are relationships, romantic and familial, and the multigenerational characters have their own individual quirks. Watching each of them grow, change, and […]