American fiction – Page 5

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 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

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?

A gripping tale of discovery and redemption set in the early twentieth century America filled with treachery, tribes and tribulation

The story of Sam and Sadie principally, and a friendship that endures rifts and crises, set in the world of computer programming and gaming

Imagine if you could travel back in time with ease and interact with Ulysses S. Grant – Donna Balon’s heroine does just this

A novel about a man investigating the murder of his sister but also about opening his mind to that which cannot easily be explained…

A wonderful sequel to a timeless classic, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Did you ever wonder what happened to Mary Lennox?

Another enjoyable murder mystery from the Gilded Age with Val and Roddy DeVere who investigate a suspicious death in a box at the opera