Day: April 25, 2018

This prize-winning novel of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite simply “Graham Greene’s masterpiece” (John Updike, The New York Review of Books).   In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As churches are razed, icons are

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A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian).   It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle

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A sweeping collection of poetry from one of Great Britain’s most celebrated postwar writers.   Bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe delves into the profound and personal world of poetry in this collection of two hundred poems written between 1950 and 1990. Culled from seven previously

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Becks Winter I have 12 months till I turn the big 30, and it appears my dead parents haven’t finished playing their silly games. Games I’m not allowed to tell anyone about. I just have to avoid temptation for 12 months to make it easy for myself. Then I won’t have to lie to anyone. I must stay

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