Telling of four generations two widely contrasting families; the domineering, prosperous Tewkes, and the kindly, unambitious Izzards.

Follows Grandfather Tewkes, his headstrong daughter Beth and her husband, their daughter Betony, and Betony's adopted brother, Tom Maddox, through four generations of joy and anguish, comfort and poverty, and life and death in the West Midlands, London, a

Unfolding in Worcestershire in the 1880s, young Beth Tewke is coming to terms with a tragic loss. Resplendent with richly evocative scenes of country life and filled with warm and intriguing characters, Apple tree lean down follows the fortunes of Beth and her family through the seasons of birth and loss, marriage and hope.

Ensign traces the engagement of Wolfe's characters with the nonhuman world to roots in a romantic tradition of American literature, as exemplified by Nathaniel Hawthorne."--BOOK JACKET.

From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman’s sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems. "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence.”—R.F. Kuang “He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.” 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally—the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke—a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways. But as the case unfolds, events from the past resurface that may have life-altering ramifications for all involved. At once a searing mystery and a profound meditation on the hidden worlds we all inhabit, The Drowned is the next great Strafford and Quirke novel from a beloved writer at the top of his game.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.