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Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street. Mr. Smith is amiable and charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. In his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won’t explain why, where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay?

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Week of February 5, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of February 5th include George Saunders' Man Booker Prize-winning novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented; BEARTOWN, Fredrik Backman's instant New York Times bestseller about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything; UNRAVELING OLIVER by debut novelist Liz Nugent, a complex and disturbing psychological thriller about how and why a human being transforms into a sociopath; and Lynne Olson's LAST HOPE ISLAND, a groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.

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