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Hag-Seed: A Novel
Margaret Atwood - Hogarth
Format: Paperback
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William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal... |
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The Unlikely Lady
Valerie Bowman - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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FOR THE BACHELOR AND THE BLUESTOCKING ... Certain that no man wants a bluestocking for a wife, Miss Jane Lowndes is careful to wield her books and her spectacles as weapons against matrimony. Convincing her ambitious mama that she's content to stay a spinster is easier said than done, however.... |
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Miranda and Caliban
Jacqueline Carey - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Miranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey's gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination, Carey explores the themes of twisted love and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare's masterpiece, while serving... |
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New Boy
TRACY CHEVALIER - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover
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Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare's harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge to a 1970s era elementary school playground. Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with... |
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Miranda in Milan
Katharine Duckett - Tordotcom
Format: Hardcover
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With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeares The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.After the tempest, after the reunion, after her father... |
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Beatrice and Benedick
Marina Fiorato - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought... |
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The Queens of Innis Lear
Tessa Gratton - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, dynasties battle for the crown in Tessa Gratton's debut epic adult fantasy The Queens of Innis Lear, a story of deposed kings and betrayed queens The erratic decisions of a prophecy-obsessed king have drained Innis Lear of its wild magic,... |
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The Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A ghost story with a twista suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. The club,... |
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Nutshell: A Novel
Ian Mcewan - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book
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New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them... |
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Macbeth
Jo Nesbo - Hogarth Press
Format: Hardcover
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A HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND THE THIRST Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream... |
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Dunbar
Edward St. Aubyn - Hogarth Press
Format: Hardcover
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A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critcally acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest... |
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Iago: A Novel
David Snodin - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare's Othello leaves offWounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries - one an accused killer; the other, one of the most powerful men in Venice.... |
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Vinegar Girl
Anne Tyler - Knopf Canada
Format: Print book
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Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our most beloved novelists."You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that." Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house... |
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The Gap of Time: A Novel
Jeanette Winterson - Hogarth Shakespeare,
Format: Hardcover
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The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through... |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
David Wroblewski - Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classic Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained... |
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