American fiction – Page 4

Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann

A book of family and the tensions that create the ebb and flow, to and fro, between its members, told from different viewpoints

If you like murder mysteries that are well-plotted, revealed by degrees and involve eccentric and lively characters, Nero Wolfe is for you!

A book which is ostensibly about family but has a deeper discussion at its core involving humans and the way we treat other animals

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it

Suzie suffers from schizophrenia and when this starts to drag her life into darker realms, we go with Landt’s narrative to the Mole People

Why doesn’t Lena want to go home to Possett, Alabama? A book which explores the past, growing up, rites of passage and the ties that bind

More of the Fae realm and its troubles with a megalomaniac king, threats galore and, it has to be said, a fair amount of faerie smut

A book of family, its history and the stories that shape us and how what we believe is true can be different to what our family’s truth is

The story of Eleanor, her loves and losses, in the context of her time at the holiday home her grandfather built, The Paper Palace

A tale of family and the impact that war can have, in its many manifestations: death of loved ones, loss, grief or in the hardship it brings