Anglo-Saxon Literature - Lectrice Carnet

The Shadow Dance - Joseph O'Connor

Published Jan 22, 2026 by Papillon

"Telling a story to someone. Reaching another person you've never met. That hope... moves me deeply. Someone sitting in shadow, way back in the theater." This is the story of a young man obsessed with theater...

English Summers - Elizabeth Jane Howard

Published Jan 5, 2026 by Papillon

"The air held the warm scent of roses and honeysuckle, blackbirds settling for night made their metallic clatter, and the sky, streaked with vaporous clouds like down, turned apricot." What better way to start the year cozily...

Ohio - Stephen Markley

Published Dec 21, 2025 by Papillon

"At some point, we'd have to cut down these ghosts hanging from the trees. Couldn't let them swing there forever." They turned 17 or 18 in the year 2000 in the small town of New Canaan, Ohio, witnessing history unfold in real time...

The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Published Nov 2, 2025 by Papillon

"This is all I want. To rid the world of witches so we may live in God's peace. And if the way to achieve that is war, then so be it." On the island of Vardø, at Norway's far North, in the 17th century...

Mississippi Solo - Eddy L. Harris

Published Oct 20, 2025 by Papillon

"I look at the Mississippi and see America's symbol, the backbone of a nation, an emblem of strength, freedom and pride, of movement, history and imagination." In the late 80s, Eddy Harris conceived a slightly mad dream...

Rough Animals - Rae DelBianco

Published Sep 25, 2025 by Papillon

"Men think they know everything about the desert just like they think they know everything about violence. But they're wrong on both counts." With their ranch's finances more than precarious, Wyatt and Lucy Smith, a pair of fused twins, cannot...

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Published Sep 22, 2025 by Papillon

"When she walked into the building she was Black and when she walked out she was white. Their gaze had transformed her." They were two light-skinned Black twin sisters, Desiree the bold one and Stella the reserved, in a small Louisiana town...

Everyman - Philip Roth

Published Sep 19, 2025 by Papillon

"Now escaping death seemed to be the main business of his life, which had become nothing but the chronicle of his physical decline." The man in question has reached the final chapter of his life. He had a successful advertising career...

Apeirogon - Colum McCann

Published Sep 18, 2025 by Papillon

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there." (Rumi, Persian poet) At the heart of this novel are two little girls. Their names were Smadar and Abir, one was fourteen, the other ten, the first Israeli...

North Michigan - Jim Harrison

Published Sep 15, 2025 by Papillon

"He stopped at the thought that life was just a death dance, that he'd rushed through spring then summer too quickly and was already halfway through the autumn of his existence. He really needed to do better because everyone knows...