How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
by Russell Hoban
I knew how great Russell Hoban was (in his Frances books for kids and his grown-up novels Turtle Diary and Riddley Walker), and I knew, vaguely, that he had written another kids' book with the thrilli... (Tom)
Problems
by Jade Sharma
MADE-UP
Based on the title, I thought I knew a bit about what I was in for with this novel, but it stunned me nonetheless. Maya's gritty, time-compressed world of heroin addiction is somehow shockingly raw an... (Kim)
Victory
by Joseph Conrad
Perhaps all you need to recommend Victory to you is to be told that Joan Didion rereads it before she starts every novel she writes. That's what got me to open it a few years back, and I wasn't disapp... (Tom)
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