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The Bolter chronicles the life of Idina Sackville, a wellborn British woman who defied convention by having “lovers without number” and choosing a decadent expat life in Kenya in 1918. Was Sackville a protofeminist free spirit à la Isak Dinesen or a spoiled rich girl who couldn’t resist a scandal? Author Frances Osborne—Sackville’s great-granddaughter—traces her ancestor’s journey from madcap to just plain mad

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Little BEE  by Chris Cleave
288 pages; Simon & Schuster

A terrifying memory unites two very different women—a wry and ingenious young Nigerian refugee newly sprung from a British detention center, and an editor of a fashionable English women’s magazine—in Chris Cleave’s hauntingly original novel, Little Bee. A story about what it takes to look horror in the face and still find beauty.

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Dreaming in Hindi - Katherine Russel Rich

What do you do when rotten luck leaves you speechless? After two bouts with cancer and the shock of getting fired, Katherine Russell Rich “no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I’d borrow someone else’s.”Dreaming in Hindi is the verbally and emotionally dazzling story of Rich’s passage to India, where she tried to master an intricate foreign tongue—and became fluent in the language of human possibility.

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