A history of trauma, a half-drunk search for answers and the well-tanned soul of Arizona collide in Blackout: You Gotta Love Phoenix by Frank C. Senia, a hedonistic and tragic tale of reinvention. Ken the optician is having a strange day; [...]
Defoe's little-known 1722 pseudo-history holds startling parallels with our own plague year of COVID-19. Based on his uncle Henry Foe's diaries, a London saddler who remained in the capital during the 1665 outbreak of the Great Plague of London, the novel [...]
America's old scars and the fresh wounds of emotional turmoil are on full display in Sorrow Ledge, a visceral and beautifully penned novel by author Kenneth Arbogast. Set more than a century ago, in those fragile decades following the Civil War, [...]
The Young is an ambitious work of fantasy by Nicholas John Powter that has the makings of an epic work of fiction. Sven, a former warrior of the Telfmare, uproots his young son, Fren, from the relative safety of their home [...]
This year's International Booker shortlist is skewed towards stories told by YA protagonists in extreme emotional distress. Dutch poet Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's book, The Discomfort of Evening is perhaps the most disturbing of these, telling the story of Jas, a young [...]
A dozen schoolchildren are plunged into an otherworldly adventure of a lifetime in Kingdom of the Silver Cat by Thomas Carroll. This book for young readers is creative, authentic, and unique, but also supported by strong life lessons and powerful messaging [...]
The Siren of Good Intentions by author J.E. Mooney is a sweeping and immersive descent into the wild heart of West Africa exploring the dramatic conflicts of capitalism, imperialism, loyalty, and love. A cast of inter-related and well-penned characters find their [...]
In Krakenscourge, the second installment in author John Graham's Voidstalker series, readers are brought to an imagined world where humanity has breached the boundaries of the solar system, and found that life is not always interested in playing nice. Digging back [...]
Envisioning the spread of mankind throughout the stars has been a rather recent development, but these dreams of expansion have sparked countless books, movies, television shows and even space program initiatives. John Graham taps into this common passion to deliver a [...]
A bizarre, mind-bending story unfurls on the pages of Time's Musicians by Mark Paul Oleksiw, an author with an imagination only matched by his delicate and authentic style. In this decade-spanning novel, the idea of connections across time and space mix [...]