On a cold March evening in 1943, a sad and shocking event occurred: 173 Londoners, many of them children, died in a crush of people trying to enter the Bethnal Green underground station shelter after air raid warnings had sounded … and to this day no one really knows how it happened.
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I am sure that for most of us, one beloved husband or wife is more than sufficient! In Part One of this novel, as Henry Oades sets sail halfway across the world to New Zealand in the 1890s with his young wife Margaret and their two children, one beloved wife is all he has ever wanted.
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The Blue Manuscript by Sabiha Al Khemir is a tale woven of stories and miracles, of the sublimity of art and the crassness of art dealers, of human ambition and longing for connection.
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The story begins in Senegal, as the young narrator is decorated with jewelry and fitted with a new dress by her mother, and then given a ritual bath. The girl has a premonition that …
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Rolling Stone editor Julia Holmes's first novel, Meeks, owes a lot to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the classic 1948 short story which opens with a seemingly innocent town meeting in an unspecified time and place, and gradually increases the reader's sense of foreboding until the very end when somebody heaves a rock, "and then they were upon her." Shivers!
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