Published Reviews

The Blurb (Australia) reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu "February Flowers is an impressive debut from Wu. It offers an insight into contemporary Chinese life not often seen in literature of Chinese origin and will... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu Read More »
Washington Post Book World reviews Finn by Jon Clinch Clinch reimagines Finn in a strikingly original way, replacing Huck's voice with his own magisterial vision -- one that's nothing short of revelatory. Read More »	Straits Times Singapore reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu "A winning debut…engrossing, beautifully written…sophisticated blend of lyricism, humour, sexual titillation and earnest exploration of being and becoming…... Read More »
That's Beijing Magazine reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu "First-time author Fan Wu's elegant pacing and tidy, vivid prose captures China on the cusp of its economic boom, with the characters caught in the social... Read More »	The Tablet (UK) reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu This first novel (February Flowers) commands our attention if we want to understand contemporary China...Yan is perhaps...the bipolar characteristics of... Read More »
Financial Times Book Review(UK) reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu "a novel that turns its eye away from imagined audiences and keeps it trained on the story at hand...the ease with which it (the novel) shakes off the... Read More »	The Asian Review of Books reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu "A fresh, original work that strikes a fine balance between intimacy and restraint, and shatters several stereotypes along the way….The author's control of... Read More »
The Bulletin (Australia) reviews February Flowers by Fan Wu "Characters, plot, and Chinoiserie combine in a debut novel that shines…animated by unforgettable characters, and infused with emotional honesty, Fan Wu's... Read More »	Columbia Journalism Review reviews Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment by Jacques Leslie ... Deep Water is not a book about dams, as it were, but about three people whose lives have been lived in the tall shadows of dams. This makes all the... Read More »

The Times UK reviews Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan I've been salivating over a fascinating and brave new book by the Australian-Canadian chef Jennifer McLagan. It's called, shamelessly, Fat. In it McLagan puts a... Read More »	Richmond Times-Dispatch reviews DOWN AT THE DOCKS by rory nugent New Bedford remains the largest commercial fishing port in the United States, but it has fallen on hard times, writes Rory Nugent in his riveting DOWN AT THE DOCKS... Read More »
The Washington Post reviews Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater At the center of "Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family" stands the figure of Veronica Chater's father, a one-time California highway patrol... Read More »	Book Wenches reviews The Witch's Beast by Kiki Howell This twisted turn on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast finds the tale from the witch’s point of view. The Witch, Saraphina, has been angered by Prince Amir... Read More »
BlogCritics reviews For The May Queen by Kate Evans Kate Evans' novel engrossed me with its sharp wit and humor. I couldn’t help but get involved with her characters. They are similar to the highly artistic creative... Read More »	The Girls From Ames BORDERS's Shortlist Interview reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The co-author, with Randy Pausch, of the inspiring bestseller The Last Lecture, Jeffrey Zaslow offers another charming book of wisdom and life lessons in The Girls... Read More »
The Girls From Ames More Magazine reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist, took a year off from his job so he could travel around the country to study the 40-year friendship of 11 women... Read More »	The Girls From Ames BookPage reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow In his follow-up to the best-selling The Last Lecture, co-written with Randy Pausch, Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow explores the friendship of 11... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Huffington Post reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship by Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow tells the remarkable story of the 40-year... Read More »	rainbo electronic reviews reviews The Winged and Garlanded Nike by stan g scott The small fictitious California town of Fernville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains was the beneficiary of the Defense Department's spending sprees... Read More »