Books like Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

ix, 340 pages : 20 cm

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay follows 19‑year‑old Josef Kavalier, a Prague refugee who arrives in 1939 New York and partners with his cousin Sammy to create a comic‑book hero, the Escapist, while fighting fascism, navigating family, identity and the rapidly changing world of 20th‑century mass media.

Nona Grey, a blood‑stained nine‑year‑old, is taken to the Convent of Sweet Mercy where girls are trained as deadly religious warriors. Under Abbess Glass she learns sword, mystic power, and confronts her violent past amid a crumbling empire.

A tale of forbidden love and the repressive society of 1950s England.

In this radical collection, Joanna Russ presents four interlocking narratives of women whose lives collide across alternate realities, exposing gender, power, and identity in ways that challenge the status quo.

Two British soldiers become unlikely friends in Cold War espionage and today's world of terrorism.

In this New York Times‑reviewed novel, Nancy Tucker blends crime and psychological suspense, delivering a tense thriller that has garnered attention within contemporary English literature.

In Evie Wyld's The Bass Rock, a family unravels long‑held secrets across generations, weaving history and intimate revelations into a richly atmospheric novel that earned a New York Times review.

271 p. : 20 cm

A mysterious figure leads a desperate resistance against alien invaders in space warfare science fiction thriller with banned Commonwealth technology.

"Jeanette Winterson argues in this collection for the importance of art in all our lives. In ten intertwined essays, the acclaimed author of such recent novels as Written on the Body and Art & Lies proposes art as an active force in the world - neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting even those who don't." "An act of courage and effrontery, a uniquely human endeavor that defies time and differences, art offers new realities, emotions and worlds to anyone prepared to meet the demands it places on us. Art objects to the lie that life is small, fragmented and mean. Art objects to the myth of inevitable decay. Winterson's eloquent vision of objecting, transforming, exuberant art is presented in pieces on painting, autobiography, style and the future of fiction. She also declares her admiration for Modernism and examines the writing of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein. More personally, she confronts the current fascination with the writer's life or sexuality instead of the work itself, and describes her relationship to her own fiction."--BOOK JACKET.