The Bibliophile's Compass

2014 Revival  by Stephen King A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life. 2021 The Fell by Sarah Moss (UK) At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two week quarantine period, but she just can't take it anymore - the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know.But Kate's neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate's son, soon realizes she's missing. 2024 Munichs by David Peace (UK) From the acclaimed author of The Damned Utd, a novel of tragedy and renewal, inspired by one of the greatest disasters in the history of sports. 2025 The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration giv...

  1860 Poet and critic Matthew Arnold begins his series of lectures " On Translating Home " as Oxford Professor of Poetry at Oxford University (UK) 1916 Playwright Eugene O'Neill makes his New York debut with " Bound East for Cardiff " with the Provincetown Players 2015 The Japanese Lover  by Isabel Allende Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover is written with the same keen understanding of her characters that Isabel Allende has been known for since her landmark first novel The House of the Spirits. The Japanese Lover is a moving tribute to the constancy of the human heart in a world of unceasing change. 2015 Avenue of Mysteries  by John Irving Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future. 2015 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams  by Stephen Kin...

1957 " On the Road " by Jack Kerouac  "On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an inspirational work of lasting importance. 1958 " Doctor Zhivago " novel by Boris Pasternak published in US  The classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. 2023 The Fraud by Zadie Smith (UK) It is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case. 2023 Holly  by Stephen King  Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled e...