The Lives of Lee Miller is a biographical memoir by British photographer Antony Penrose, the son of Lee Miller. It was published in 1985 and later in 1995 by Thames & Hudson. Elizabeth "Lee Miller" Penrose was born in 1907 in New York. At...

Impossible Creatures is a fantasy fiction novel written by Katherine Rundell, a multi-award-winning British author known for her children’s fiction. It was published on September 14, 2023. Rundell has been celebrated for her previous works like ...

Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep was published by Simon and Schuster in mid-2024. The novel is set in the Netherlands, and is set in 1961, years after the end of World War II. The destruction caused by the war, including building damage and bomb...

Sarah Perry's Enlightenment was published in June 2024 by Mariner Books. The novel, which is set in a small town in England, follows Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay, who have never met but have a strange connection. Growing up in a Baptist...

Richard Powers' Playground was published by W.W. Norton & Company in September 2024. Powers' novel follows four seemingly separate characters, who deal with the earth and its intricacies in different ways. The first character, Evie Beaulieu,...

Oregon-born author Rachel Kushner has written some of the most widely-loved novels of the twenty-first century. Creation Lake, which was published in 2024 and earned rave critical reviews, is set to be as wildly successful as her previous work....

Author Katherine Mansfield's short story "A Cup of Tea" was first published in May 1922 as a part of pulp British magazine. The short story, which tells the story of a young woman named Rosemary Fell, was based on the author's own life. Rosemary...

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun was published by Faber and Faber in 2021. As with many of Ishiguro's novel, Klara and the Sun imagines a future in which humans live in a dystopia. Here, children are genetically engineered and...