A Lit Hub Best Book of 2016 • One of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2016 • An Entropy Best Book of 2016“The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First...Dutton expertly captures the pathos of a woman whose happiness is furrowed with the anxiety of underacknowledgment.” —Katharine Grant, The New York Times Book ReviewMargaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the sh...

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life.“Luminous” (The Guardian) and “brilliantly odd” (The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton's writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponym...

A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time.Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing—somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy—that Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian Novel.TOAF is a recuperativ...

**A vividly told, triumphant story that follows one of the thousands of young Irish women shipped to Australia after the Famine as part of the Earl Grey Scheme, whose indomitable bravery in an exotic, danger-laden land helped shape a new country. For readers of Ellen Marie Wiseman, Sarah Loudin Thomas, Amanda Skenandore and Marie Benedict.They survived Ireland’s Great Hunger to build a new society in untamed Australia . . .**1848: The girls, 4,000 in all, ...

From award-winning journalist Jack Ford, a riveting and colorful dual timeline novel of Lee Carson, the heroic yet elusive female journalist who defied convention and danger to report from the front lines of WWII, combining breathtaking wartime narrative with a compelling Cold War espionage tale for fans of Christine Mangan, Pam Jenoff, Erika Robuck, and Kate Quinn.Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee Carson, former war correspondent, is frustrated that her journalism c...

From the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War of Independence and arrive in London to seek their fortune in this page-turning, immersive story of survival, betrayal, secrets, and the quest for true freedom.On a terrifying night in 1768, Daniel and his young sister, Pearl, narrowly escape their brutal life of slav...

A riveting crime thriller from a New York Times bestselling author.Mathew Sedley returns home to his isolated cottage to find a dollhouse in his hallway. It’s a perfect replica of his home – inside and out – except that this dollhouse has a miniature figure of a woman lying in a pool of blood on the spare bedroom floor.A sadistic serial killer is terrorising rural Somerset. Each murder is heralded by the discovery of a dollhouse, an exact replica of the pla...

The BRAND NEW deliciously dark thriller from Sarah Bonner, bestselling author of How to Slay at Work! Must-read for fans of Katy Brent, Bella Mackie and Julie Mae Cohen ☀️️You’d kill for a holiday like this one…Chloe has spent months planning the murder of her husband, Scott. Everything is ready, but first she must create the perfect alibi to avoid any suggestion of her involvement in his death. And what better way to avoid suspicion than playi...

In a riveting new novel in a Victorian-set mystery series brimming with authentic atmosphere, Dr. Julia Lewis, Scotland Yard’s first female medical examiner, and her partner, Detective Inspector Richard Tennant, investigate a string of murders in the art world.London, 1867: Among the genteel young ladies of London society, painting is a perfectly acceptable pastime—but a woman who dares to pursue art as a profession is another matter, indeed. Dr. Julia Lew...

**Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets Code Name Verity in this propulsive, quick-witted mystery set in late-1940s Los Angeles, as former WWII spy Evelyn Bishop and LA noir detective Nick Gallagher team up as an unconventional duo…From the screenwriter of Bride Hard starring Rebel Wilson!**As an undercover operative for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, Evelyn Bishop routinely embarked on deadly missions. By contrast, civilian life should ...

Perfect for fans of Jack Reacher and Joe Pickett, Rockets’ Red Glare is a fast-paced thriller that introduces Sage Mendiluze, a police deputy determined to find and stop a series of relentless and brutal murders.After two wilderness guides are gunned down at a remote campsite in a nearby national forest, it’s determined that the fatal shots came from Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation. Tribal Police Deputy Sage Mendiluze is called in to hike the rugge...

Brand new emotional page-turner from bestselling author Louise Guy ⭐️ Must-read for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes and Kate Hewitt! I loved him… but I loved my daughters more. I knew what I had to do. I had to protect them.When June Marlow was arrested for the murder of her husband nearly thirty years ago, she feared she would never see her daughters again.Terrorised by the man who claimed to love her, and too ashamed and humi...