This love story tacks between an English boarding school and the Western Front. A moving historical debut; compelling and unexpectedly funny (for the Somme).
The plight of post-Civil War Madrid is told through the voices of over 300 characters. A new NYRB edition of this raucous, fragmentary novel, first published in 1950.
A novel in verse based on the experiences of the author's great aunt, who went to Canada as an orphan in 1908 where she worked as an indentured servant.
A dark tale of obsession and hysteria, set in a small French town in the aftermath of WW2. McIntosh is a clever writer already well known for The Water Cure.