Emily Franklin’s superb and bestselling historical novel, The Lioness of Boston has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Sarton Award by Story Circle’s Women’s Book Awards.
See the complete of finalists at the link.
Story Circle’s Women’s Book Awards
Emily Franklin’s superb and bestselling historical novel, The Lioness of Boston has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Sarton Award by Story Circle’s Women’s Book Awards.
See the complete of finalists at the link.
January 12, 2024
Our Nonpareil title, The Geography of the Imagination, just received a well-deserved rave review….
“The Geography of the Imagination, his masterwork, is as protean and plentiful as its author….What aren’t the 40 essays in it about? Davenport was too delighted in ‘rhymes, or affinities,’ as he put it, to tackle one subject at a time. Accordingly, a rumination on cave painting is also a reflection on Pablo Picasso; a musing on the 19th-century art critic John Ruskin is also a meditation on labyrinths….He did not write to impress or intimidate — though he may have done both inadvertently — but rather to articulate his awe. The same man who enjoyed explicating the most arcane allusions in Pound’s impenetrabilia also observed, earnestly and beautifully, ‘Two lives we lead: in the world and in our minds. Only a work of art can show us how to do it.’ ”
—Washington Post
Read more at the link.
The Last Island by Adam Goodheart was chosen as one of the year’s best by the Washington Post.
Read more at the link.
The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin was chosen as one of the year’s best by the Toronto Star.
Read more at the link.
My Man in Antibes by Michael Mewshaw was chosen as one of the year’s best by the Times Literary Supplement. The contributor, Damon Galgut, says, “I savored Michael Mewshaw’s funny, gossipy, thoughtful account of his fractious friendship with Graham Greene.”
Read more at the link.
Boston.com has chosen Nina MacLaughlin’s (Winter Solstice) as their December Book Club selection!
For more information, please see the link.
Hear bookseller Josh Christie (of Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine) describing Winter Solstice as one of his favorites of 2023. The segment starts around the 34:10 mark in recording at the link.
Josh Christie says “I think my favorite nonfiction book of the year is probably Winter Solstice by Nina MacLaughlin….This book is beautiful, it’s a book that begs to be read aloud. The language is just gorgeous…You could read it yourself or aloud in an afternoon. There are pieces of it that I’ve returned to over and over again.”
Paris Notebooks by Mavis Gallant (with an introduction by Hermione Lee) was chosen by The New Yorker as a Best Book of 2023.
The New Yorker calls it “An incisive and multi-angled view of French society and of literature.”
Paris Notebooks is part of the Nonpareil paperback series from Godine.
November 22, 2023
Read Nina MacLaughlin on her book Winter Solstice in the Boston Globe.
November 11, 2023
“We’re better off for having these men among us.”—Wall Street Journal
Read the Wall Street Journal‘s review of Brotherhood at the link.
October 4, 2023
Read a review of Paris Notebooks, a Godine Nonpareil, in the The Washington Post.
October 15, 2023
Read author Martin Pengelly on Brotherhood in the The Guardian.