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The Great Lunenburglary by Bryn Pottie

September 7, 2026 by Catherine Walker

My review copy of The Great Lunenburglary arrived with a handwritten note from the author, “Please enjoy this silly book.” Clearly, author Bryn Pottie has no literary illusions. In fact, on a recent podcast he describes his target reader for his debut novel as anyone who’s “read less than a handful of books since high …

Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann

November 12, 2022 by Alison Manley

By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.

The Transaction by Guglielmo D’Izzia

July 30, 2025February 7, 2020 by James M. Fisher

Mr. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily’s hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy.