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Although the majority of the plot takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, Kate Atkinson's third novel to feature retired police detective Jackson Brodie actually begins in Devon, in the south east of England, where a six year old girl, Joanna,...

Water by the Spoonful is a play written by playwright, poet and essayist Quiara Alegría Hudes. Hudes also wrote a book for the musical In the Heights. The play premiered on October 20, 2011 at Hartford Stage in Connecticut. It is played in English...

Released in September 2019, Red at the Bone tells the story of a young woman named Melody, a sixteen year old who is celebrating her birthday in her grandparents house in Brooklyn, New York. Although it tells the story of Melody's family history,...

Castle Rackrent is unusual among Maria Rackrent's works in that it is one of the few novels she wrote that was not edited by her father. Published in 1800, it is a short novel / novella that tells the story of four heirs to the Rackrent fortune as...

Elizabeth Strout first wrote about her protagonist, Olive Kitteridge, in her 2008 novel bearing her heroine's name; this sequel follows a similar format, and consist of thirteen short stories set on the coast of Maine, that do not follow on from...

Directly translated from its original language, the title of text is literally one with the skin of a tiger; this Medieval epic poem was penned by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli in the twelfth century. It is divided into Rustavelian...

C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, is considered by many to be one of history's greatest apologists (logical defenders of the Christian faith). Out of many nonfiction works, The Problem of Pain stands out as one of...

Although he died destitute, Philip K. Dick is responsible for some of the most inventive -- and iconic -- science fiction stories of all time. Among such stories include Blade Runner, The Man in the High Castle, Minority Report, and A Scanner...

"On Fairy-Stories" is a critical essay by J.R.R. Tolkien, the acclaimed author of The Lord of the Rings. The essay was published in its final form in the collection Essays Presented to Charles Williams from Oxford University Press in 1947, but the...

When it was released in 1999, The Freedom Writers Diary was met with critical acclaim and financial success -- but it was not released without controversy. In 2008, a teacher was suspended for a year and a half without pay for teaching the book...

Widely believed to be Terence Rattigan's best work, The Browning Version was first performed on September 8 1948, at the historic Phoenix Theater in London. The play is set in a private school for boys; one of the main characters, Classical...

Stephen Hawking's goal in writing A Brief History of Time (first published in 1988) was to write an easily accessible book for layman with little or no prior scientific knowledge. The book introduces readers to ideas like the creation and...

There are two main characters in Sebastian Faulks' fourth novel, Birdsong, and they share a plot line that is separated by sixty years. The story follows the life of Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in France during World War...

Deadly, unna? is Philip Gwynne's debut novel, and like Spring, he came onto the teen literary scene like a lion. He sets the story in his native Australia against a background of interracial difficulties and friendships that are possible through a...

First published in the London Mercury in 1921, The Daughters of the Late Colonel is a short story by Katherine Mansfield that was later re-printed in a compendium of her work entitled The Garden Party and Other Stories. It tells the story of two...

A Different Mirror is a retelling of the history of the United States of America written by academic, historian, author and ethnographer Ronald Takiki. The book was published June 1st 1994 by Back Bay Books, though it was first published in 1993....

The Distance Between Us is a coming of age novel written by Kasie West. It follows a girl named Caymen Meyes as she meets a guy she likes. It spans over 320 pages and was published on July 2nd, 2013 by Harper Teen. It has been translated into...

In a very symbolic, but also rather literal way, Mark Twain was engaging in a bit of gold prospecting himself when he penned “The Californian’s Tale.” While Twain seemed to have an unerring knack for putting his finger directly on the pulse of...

Although Canadian author Margaret Atwood is best-known for writing the book The Handmaid's Tale, she is the author of a number of very well-respected novels. Among them is Cat's Eye, which released after The Handmaid's Tale.

When writing Cat's...

Melton Mclaurin references an enormous number of historical events in his book Celia, A Slave, which tells the story of slavery through the eyes of a female slave. The book is based on the trial of Celia, slave girl to Robert Newsome, who was...

Written in 1904, "The Cop and the Anthem" is a short story by O. Henry, an American author who wrote under this famous pen name; born William Sydney Porter, his stories became known for the surprise twist at the end, and for being set in New York...

Crow Country is a 2011 children's fantasy-mystery novel by Australian author Kate Constable. It won the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Young Readers and the Patricia Wrightson Award for Children's Literature at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon is one of the latest additions to one of America’s oldest original literary genres, the slave narrative. This genre stretches from those published before the off-anthologized Interesting Narrative of the Life of...

Released in 2016, Behold the Dreamers is author Imbolo Mbue's debut novel. It tells the story of a young man named Jende Jonga, an immigrant from Cameroon. After looking for a while for a job, Jende gets a prestigious job for a Lehman Brothers...