A mourning girl summers in a town that’s caught in cycles of abuse in the shocking historical novel "The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic". In Patti C. Smith’s haunting historical novel "The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic", a devastating murder... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

In Alex Mullarky’s novel "The Edge of the Silver Sea", a city girl uprooted by her parents’ dreams tries to find her way home. Upon Blair’s first glimpse of her new home, Roscoe, from the ferry, she is stunned by its terrain, which... Read More

Innate chemistry helps ferry a couple through their challenges in the exciting romance novel "And They Had a Great Fall". A guarded widow and a movie star keep their budding relationship a secret in Shelby Saville’s moving romance... Read More

Meditative and sumptuous, "Latitudes" is Jean McNeil’s brooding memoir covering travels to remote landscapes; it ruminates on the unsettling impacts of climate change. McNeil is an inquisitive, restless traveler who crafts beautiful... Read More

For the central trio in Jenny Haysom’s astute and appealing novel "Keep", held and released secrets and possessions threaten to disrupt the course of life. Harriet, a poet in her eighties, is slipping into dementia; ““if this last... Read More