FOR THE NON-FICTION FAN

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones. A true music legend, Rickie’s soulful singing came from a place of turmoil, rejection and addiction. Rave reviews from O Magazine and Kirkus Reviews. 

FOR A STRAIGHT-ON ROMANCE

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift Set in early 1920s England. A maid of a well-to-do family falls for the son who is engaged to a woman of his family’s choosing.  You can almost feel the sultry England summer as the longing and consummation sizzle. Made into a feature film starring some of The Crown’s finest actors. 

FOR THE EPIC HISTORICAL FICTION LOVER

Niki by Christos Chomenidis (has already won the Prix Du LivrePrix Du Livre Européen). Niki tells her family’s life story set in Greece during World War II and its bloody political aftermath. Highlights the resilience and passion of the Greek culture, isolationism and fear of political revenge, and her star-crossed romance

FOR THE INTELLECTUAL

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (also the author of Go, Went, Gone.) A German setting pre and post-Wall fall in the late 1980s in which a married man rattled by the Holocaust he experienced as a child meets a young college student without a care in the world. Sparks fly when his intellectual discourse and brooding seduce the young woman.