women’s fiction – Book Club Babble

Caroline Leavitt's eleventh novel, Cruel Beautiful World, is both a gripping page-turner and a deeply moving character study. Sisters Charlotte and Lucy lose their parents as young children and come to live wit... Read More...

Under a Sardinian Sky – An Interview with Sara Alexander

Tabitha Lord

Interviews, on Books

Mina, a London-based travel writer, returns to her family's home in Sardinia to bury an aunt. With her mother also gravely ill, she worries that her family's history will be lost as the last of that generation ... Read More...

Interview with Abby Fabiaschi, Author of I Liked My Life

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Matriarch Madeline Starling killed herself. Now she’s in purgatory, hovering above the earth. She watches her husband and teenage daughter, sending them kind thoughts to help them deal with their grief. Determi... Read More...

Two Families, One Secret: An Interview With Lynda Cohen Loigman

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

Author Lynda Cohen Loigman Author Lynda Cohen Loigman will be featured live on the Author's Cut, Wednesday, March 29th at 9:00 pm. Click here to join the FB group, BCB Online Book Club, to start the conversat... Read More...

Interview with Janice Y.K. Lee, Author of The Expatriates

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Critics have described Janice Y.K Lee as “ female, funny Henry James in Asia,” and her new book The Expatriates as a “captivating,” “exquisite novel of everyday lives in extraordinary circumstances.” A psych... Read More...

Whilst I Was Out by Sara Stewart

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Stewart’s debut novel, Whilst I Was Out, is immensely readable and engaging. In the novel, the protagonist Alice is a hard-working mother of three children under the age of ten. She helps her husband MDH (My De... Read More...

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of People Who Knew Me

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

OK, so it’s not a super common occurrence, but people have been known to fake their deaths. And they all have different reasons, some are in massive debt, facing prison for fraud or they just can’t stand the w... Read More...

Books We Love: Our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Kristin Jacobson

Literary Lagniappe, on Books

Do you have a book lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are a few recommendations from our very talented literary critics that are sure to please even the most discerning reader. Tabitha Lord ... Read More...

Interview with Jean Thompson, Author of She Poured Out Her Heart

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

She Poured Out Her Heart is an excavation of a decades long friendship between two women with different life paths—Bonnie is a crisis counselor with a string of boyfriends, Jane is a suburban stay-at-home mothe... Read More...

Interview with Fiona Davis, Author of The Dollhouse

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

The Dollhouse is the riveting story of two American women living at the famed Barbizon Hotel sixty years apart. In 1952, the Barbizon is a New York boarding house for aspiring models, editors and secretaries... Read More...

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