A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
I am a big fan of the non-fiction works of Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat and Double Cross, and his latest, A Spy Among Friends, doesn’t disappoint. Ken Philby was one […]
A Spool of Blue Thread
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler The Whitshanks, Abby and Red and their four grown children, are a close knit Baltimore family driving (mostly) merrily along the road […]
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
Ove is a curmudgeonly Saab driving widower whose reclusive life is upturned when a young couple and their two and a half children move in next door. After an unceremonious […]
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, the author of Rules of Civility, is a stylishly crafted novel of mystery, romance, humor, and history. In 1922, a Bolshevik tribunal sentences Russian aristocrat […]
A Gate At The Stairs
By Lorrie Moore College freshman Tassie Keltjin is thrilled to have escaped her parent’s potato farm for university life. She loves everything about college, the professor who wears a jeans and a […]