SwellThirty years after From Rockaway ("A great first novel" Harper's Bazaar) Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable. When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home Sue relents after years of resisting and agrees to convert to Judaism. In return Sue's father in law Sy buys the family Sue Dan and their two daughters a capacious but ramshackle beachfront house in Rockaway Queens

Hollis is good company' SPECTATOR

Orphan Sarah O'Reilly has disguised herself as a boy so that she can work in the offices of Septimus Harding's newspaper

floating and upthrust

Interventions for children with reading disabilities are delayed because parents are mistakenly told their kids will catch up if they work harder

Small World

This is Dennis Wheatley for the 21st century

Each activity includes a 'red herring' that will keep dyslexic children and teenagers entertained

“He writes beautifully … I found myself carried along on page after page

In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats turned to a familiar figure to right the ship: Donna Brazile

Kerry's been framed

Which living things look familiar

and everything changes