by NRB | 21 Mar 2023 | Fiction |
The new novel from the author of The Electric Hotel uncovers wartime secrets in an Italian village. Hugh Fraser is an American academic whose Italian mother, Hazel, used to take him to her home village in Italy for their summer holidays. He has fond memories of...
by NRB | 11 May 2021 | Fiction |
Pulitzer-winner Jhumpa Lahiri explores solitude and life choices in Whereabouts, her first novel since The Lowland in 2013. This is not a happy book, nor is it a conventional novel in the sense of fiction with a plot, or a storyline. Instead, its brief chapters offer...
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