Dangerous Liaisons
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
MADE-UP
There's a reason Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 novel keeps being remade into movies (not only 1988's deservedly celebrated Dangerous Liaisons, but 1989's Valmont and 1999's Cruel Intentions): it's a bril... (Tom)
Golden Hill
by Francis Spufford
MADE-UP
What a delicious feast! Golden Hill is Spufford's first novel, after five idiosyncratic books of nonfiction, and it's clear he had a ball with it, delighting in the language and the details of his sub... (Tom)
The ACB with Honora Lee
by Kate De Goldi, drawings by Gregory O'Brien
MADE-UP
What's an "ACB"? It's a mixed-up alphabet book nine-year-old Perry is making for her Gran, Honora Lee, who has lost her husband and most of her memory and who lives at the Santa Lucia rest home, where... (Tom)
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