News - Book Reviews
News - Book Reviews

Josh Weil’s THE GREAT GLASS SEA was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, calling it “a fascinating debut novel … magnificent … hauntingly beautiful … gorgeous … a fantastical vision inspired by bits and piece of Russian language, history and culture … beautifully baffled by the mysterious Russian soul.” Brothers Yarik and Dima find themselves on opposite sides of a cultural revolution, set in a fantastical version of post-Soviet Russia. Grove Atlantic published the book on July 2, 2014.

Shelf Awareness reviews Malcolm Brooks’s forthcoming PAINTED HORSES, describing it as “a paean to the untamed majesty of… Montana, that rings like the neigh of a horse running free in a canyon…. Glowing with spirit, Brooks's debut will entrance anyone who has ever felt the call of the West.” Along with the review is an interview with Malcolm Brooks where he discusses his childhood in Montana and the inspiration for PAINTED HORSES. Grove Press will publish PAINTED HORSES on August 5, 2014.

Shelly Oria’s NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, which called it, “inventive … intriguing … meaningful and genuine.” Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishes the book on November 4, 2014.

A review in the June 1, 2014 issue of Kirkus says “Patterson’s a pro” and calls EDEN IN WINTER “an intriguing psychological examination of a damaged family.” Quercus published the book on July 1, 2014.

Tania Unsworth’s THE ONE SAFE PLACE was recently ranked on the Christian Scientist Monitor’s top 25 list for middle grade novels, calling it “a timeless story that deserves to become a children’s classic for decades to come.” Algonquin Young Readers published the book April 29, 2014.

Dinaw Mengestu’s ALL OUR NAMES was reviewed by The Guardian, which called the book “a significant moment in African literary history,” and said, “Already the recipient of a number of awards in the United States, including a MacArthur fellowship, [Mengestu] is rapidly becoming a writer on the global stage.” Knopf published the book on March 4, 2014.

AMERICAN ROMANTIC received a positive review in Sunday, June 8th’s edition of The New York Times Book Review. The review, Gail Godwin, praises the author as “both a writer’s writer and an astute tracker of human souls under duplicity and duress.” She also calls the book “one of his finest” and says that “it’s a good place to be introduced to his work.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book April 1, 2014.

Jason Hewitt's THE DYNAMITE ROOM was reviewed in the Observer, which said, “[An] ambitious and often gripping debut novel…Hewitt has a strong sense of narrative pace and brings a strange poetry to his depiction of an exhausted and empty world… a very promising first novel.” The book was released first in the UK by Simon & Schuster on March 27, 2014.

Cory Doctorow promoted the paperback publication of Austin Grossman's YOU by republishing his initial review on Boing Boing in which he said “Some of YOU reads as pure poetry, others like a fascinating treatise on the unplumbed depths of the ludic urge, and taken as a whole, it is a novel that both uplifts and entertains, and reframes the world we live in and the things we do in it. It is easily one of the best books I've read this year.” Mulholland Books published the book in paperback April 8, 2014.

JOHN WAYNE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND was recently reviewed by The Economist and Kirkus. The Economist says “Like a cinematographer, Mr. Eyman offers readers Wayne from many angles, in his own words and the words of those who worked with him. Mr. Eyman has left an engrossing record of how the Duke stayed top dog for so long.” Kirkus calls it “insightful, exhaustive and engrossing – a definitive portrait of the man and the legend.” Simon and Schuster published the book on April 1, 2014.