Best Books of 2017
Our talented literary critics share their top choices of the year.
Tabitha's Top Picks:
The Next, Stephanie Gangi's debut novel, combines a page-turning thriller with the deep, complicated relationships typic... Read More...
The Next – An Interview with Stephanie Gangi
Stephanie Gangi's debut fiction novel The Next earns its place as my favorite book of the year! Joanna DeAngelis is dying of cancer. And she's angrily cyber-stalking her ex-lover. In fact, she carries her rage ... Read More...
The Author’s Cut, Live with Leah DeCesare
I had the pleasure of chatting with author Leah DeCesare about writing craft, her fiction debut novel - Forks, Knives, and Spoons, winning awards, work life balance, and much more! Have a listen...
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Forks, Knives, and Spoons – Leah DeCesare’s Fiction Debut Delights
Register here to watch BCB’s live interview with Leah DeCesare on Wednesday, November 8th at 9:00 pm EST: The Author's Cut with Leah DeCesare. Send us your questions!
When Amy York leaves for college, her dad ... Read More...
Cruel Beautiful World – An Interview with Caroline Leavitt
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
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
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
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
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.”
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Whilst I Was Out by Sara Stewart
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...