It All Felt Impossible
By Tom McAllister
A man takes annual stock of his life in this unique collection.
A peek at what’s on tap this week.
Family & Other Calamities
By Leslie Gray Streeter
A wry, widowed journalist returns home to right some wrongs.
Fallen Land: A Novel
By Taylor Brown
An immersive page-turner set in the Civil War-era South.
Bacon Press Books keeps on sizzling
London Fog: The Biography
By Christine L. Corton
Chronicling the rise and fall of Britain's iconic smog.
We here at the Independent love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are December’s winners.
A General Theory of Oblivion
By José Eduardo Agualusa; translated by Daniel Hahn
A fever dream plays out amid the chaos of Angolan independence.
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
By Natasha Solomons
A complicated tale of sibling rivalry set against the backdrop of a once-grand English manor.
House of the Rising Sun
By James Lee Burke
An ignorant protagonist and absurd plot derail this novel by an otherwise excellent author.
This Is Where It Ends
By Marieke Nijkamp
In just 54 minutes, everything can change.
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