Junot Diaz’s new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love – passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love – told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle...

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov – a legendary high...

A dense, poetic voice, and a plot that sits well in its New Jersey setting – several stories of different characters…

Weequahic, the Jewish suburb of Newark, New Jersey, and a character whose simple belief in human progress and humanist perfection is tested by the strains of a polio epidemic. Set against World War 2 the novel explores loss of...

The story takes place in a small seaside town in New Jersey. It begins innocent enough with a town celebration. The story turns to murder among other sinister events over a period of time. The events tell of how...

Bobby Jobe is an arrogant pro golfer who fights with his caddy, chokes down the stretch in the PGA championship, then gets blinded by a bolt of lightning while hitting practice balls in a thunderstorm after the tournament. Caddy...

It would take something huge to put Paterson, New Jersey on the map. But Nina Gill is determined to do just that. She is the daughter of the ageing owner of the Dallas Cowboys and the well-kept secret to...

It’s October 2005, post 9/11 and the States are at a low point of the Bush presidency. Lula, part Muslim, part Christiam is finding a settled life in New Jersey, far away from her native Albania.

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She’s lost her job, her car is about to be reposessed and she has sold much of her furniture…. Her cousin Vinnie is offering her a job to bring in vice cop,...

On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take...