On August 15, 1947, India gained independence from the United Kingdom, and on that same day the country was divided into two separate nations: the mostly Hindu India, and the mostly Muslim Pakistan. ...
Read ReviewIn Melody Razak's novel Moth, one of the characters is fascinated by the legend of the churel, and the mythological being is mentioned several times throughout the plot. A churel (also spelled ...
Read Article
Mike Gayle's charming novel All the Lonely People introduces us to Hubert Bird, an 82-year-old widower who lives alone in Bromley (a London borough) with just his cat for company. He leads an isolated...
Read ReviewThe protagonist of Mike Gayle's novel All the Lonely People is a member of the 'Windrush generation,' which refers to people from the Caribbean who emigrated to the United Kingdom between 1948 and...
Read Article
It's a commonly cited fact that many perpetrators of sexual abuse, particularly men, are victims of sexual abuse themselves. LaToya Watkins' haunting debut novel Perish covers three generations of ...
Read ReviewLaToya Watkins' debut novel Perish is published by Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House launched in July 2020 with the goal of highlighting diverse voices that are often shut...
Read Article
Afterlives, from Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, begins in late 19th century East Africa in the early years of German colonial rule. The Germans called the area Deutsch-Ostafrika, declared ...
Read ReviewAbdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian-born British author of Afterlives, is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Black writer to win it since Toni Morrison in 1993. He was ...
Read Article
From the start of his novel The Kingdoms of Savannah, it's clear that George Dawes Green hails from Georgia. Whether depicting the humble starlight of a wooded homeless camp or the 'soft crush of ...
Read ReviewIn The Kingdoms of Savannah, author George Dawes Green describes General James Oglethorpe as a 'jewel of a man, a rare nonmonster in Savannah history.' Indeed, Oglethorpe was unique in the context...
Read Article
Rebecca Stott's novel Dark Earth is a tale of loss, survival and love set in the brutal and compelling world of sixth-century Britain. After the exiled Great Smith dies, his daughters Isla and Blue ...
Read ReviewIn Dark Earth, sisters Isla and Blue attempt to claim protection from a warlord under the laws of sixth century England, while also hiding the fact that they've broken those laws. This part of British...
Read Article
The Family Izquierdo
by Rubén Degollado
A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse.
Natural History
by Andrea Barrett
A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award–winning author.
The Ways We Hide
by Kristina McMorris
From the bestselling author of Sold On A Monday, a sweeping tale of an illusionist recruited by British intelligence in World War II.
Solve this clue:
and be entered to win...
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves
See who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
See MoreYour guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
