Langley's detailed descriptions of war blaze with brilliance

A compelling portrait of a man in search of his lost self

Beautifully written and vividly imagined, this is an impressive achievement

Lee Langley's big, ambitious new novel is a riveting read... and a deeply moving human story

A lovely novel... fragile and beautiful and so finely wrought

Her fiction often depicts an interplay of past and present, and here it is used to stunning effect

The style is graceful and deliciously readable, and the novel ends with an unforgettably eerie and moving image'

The whodunit is a mere pretext for witty debate

Subtle, funny and chilling, this delicious novel of music and murder unfolds among composers and critics of the 1910s and 1920s. Stace plays his deadly variations with real brio in a richly entertaining performance

A baroque intellectual thriller, wittily erudite and psychologically acute. Jessold joins Thomas Mann's Adrian Leverkühn and Randall Jarrell's Gottfried Rosenbaum in the gallery of memorable composers in fiction

This story - often fun, sometimes sad, always bookish - deals with big issues...Rebecca Makkai's literary debut will appeal to young adults and readers of adult literary fiction

In Makkai's picaresque first novel, Lucy, a 26-year-old children's librarian, "borrows" her favorite patron, bright, book-loving 10-year-old Ian, after his fundamentalist parents enroll him in a program meant to "cure" his nascent homosexuality.