A truly original story which gives a “curse” cognitive function and personality as it tries to survive in the face of its enemies
Tag Archives: American fiction
The Mole People by Kevin Landt
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
gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
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
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
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 Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
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 Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The story of Eleanor, her loves and losses, in the context of her time at the holiday home her grandfather built, The Paper Palace
The Farm by Randy O’Brien
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
The Greater Good by Frank Sapienza
Frank Sapienza gives us a modern moral thriller about Dr Jon Morrison who is given a choice to help his son but at what ethical cost?
Death in the Tallgrass by Donald Willerton
A gripping tale of discovery and redemption set in the early twentieth century America filled with treachery, tribes and tribulation
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The story of Sam and Sadie principally, and a friendship that endures rifts and crises, set in the world of computer programming and gaming