From the award-winning author of The Bellwether Revivals comes a "gorgeous and harrowing work" (Emily St. John Mandel) set on a mysterious island, where artists strive to recover their lost gifts--and where nothing is quite as it seems.   Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the strangest, most exclusive artists' colony around. Its brilliant residents linger for years, all expenses paid and living under assumed names. Relieved of the burdens of time and ego, they are free to create their next masterpieces.   Elspeth Conroy (aka "Knell") is a Scottish painter who has been at Portmantle for a decade, a refugee from the hectic London art scene. Her fellow longtimers include Quickman, whose sole book became a classic and paralyzed his muse; MacKinney, a playwright who left behind her family; and Pettifer, an architect obsessing over an unfinished cathedral. In his astonishing second novel, Benjamin Wood gives us “an intensely intimate portrait of an artist as a young woman, with truths on every page” (Independent).   The hermetic world at Portmantle shatters when the 17-year-old Fullerton arrives at the gates, his provenance and talents unknown. As Knell searches for answers, she reveals the path that led her to this place: Her intimate bond with her gruff drunk of a mentor; her early successes and crushing failures; a journey across the Atlantic and into the psychiatrist's office; and a grand commission of astronomical significance.   What is "The Ecliptic," and how does it relate to the life Elspeth left behind? This gorgeous puzzle of a novel touches the head and the heart, and the effect is nothing short of electrifying.

This novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a thrilling journey into the past of this eccentric family.

Boston art historian Sweeney St. George investigates the gravestone of a girl who drowned under mysterious circumstances one hundred years earlier, setting in motion a series of events that places Sweeney in the path of a present-day killer.

Accepting a fellowship in a Virginia countryside artists' colony, New York artist Tug Palifax finds creative renewal through a relationship with local farm wife Alyssa Brown, who faces a difficult choice between pursuing the relationship and keeping the farm she loves.

Bettina is one of the few humans who can see the Gentry, old world spirits who appear as dark and dangerous men, and she stays clear of them, until one night when one follows her to the woods and takes her hand

Product Description: While writer Bridget Montrose is at a writer's retreat on the California coast, someone decides the group needs editing ... with heavy use of the delete key.

A decade after being separated from the charismatic Molly Howe when she mysteriously vanishes, artist and advertising designer John Wheelright is reunited with her at Palladio, a Virginia artists' colony and antiadvertising agency led by the eccentric Malcolm Osbourne, in a novel that explores the stories of both characters in alternating chapters. 20,000 first printing.

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Assisting in a fifty-year-old murder investigation, writer Paul Graves is brought face to face with a horrible crime from his own childhood, in a chilling novel by the winner of the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel for The Chatham School Affair. Reprint. NYT. PW.

Returning from her debut in Cold Iron, private investigator Rosie Lavine looks into a series of petty disturbances in a secluded, multi-racial artists' colony in California and finds herself in the midst of an elfin revolution. Original.

After her mother dies, Marian's search for her unknown father leads her to the coast of Cornwall, where she finds that her heritage and her mother's art are closely tied to St. Ives's biggest tragedy, the fishing boat disaster of 1939.

A less-than-successful English novelist travels to a writer's colony on a Greek island where he confronts a group of new age hedonists

The son of an aspiring artist, young Richard Freeley is compelled to protect his mother when she falls out of social popularity, a decision that costs him the innocence of his adolescence and young adulthood. A first novel. Tour.

Julia Brassington, a self-confident patron of a Dorset artists' community, invites heartbroken war widow and talented painter Esther to join the supportive group, but secrets regarding Esther threaten to overshadow them.

Jonathan Oglethorpe, an editor, and Waldo Spinks, an aging novelist, race to write the perfect comic novel about art, life, and sex in the Hamptons, as they try to organize the local writers' softball team

Jonathan Oglethorpe, an editor, and Waldo Spinks, an aging novelist, race to write the perfect comic novel about art, life, and sex in the Hamptons, as they try to organize the local writers' softball team