Bellevue Literary Press: 69 books

Author Gregory Spatz is distantly related to Sir John Franklin, who was his great-grandmother's uncle. He was also inspired by the traditional 1800s ballad “Lady Franklin’s Dream” which Spatz recorded as a duet with his wife on his solo CD and again on the first Mighty Squirrel CD. The...

Oprah.com “Fresh Pick for Your Fall Book-Club Meeting” “Gratifyingly defies expectations.” -New York Times Book Review “[A] harrowing Arctic adventure.” -Oprah.com “An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. ....

“Told in clear and beautiful prose, Aaron’s Leap is a deeply moving portrait of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art in a time of brutal uncertainty.” -SIMON VAN BOOY, author of The Illusion of Separateness Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,...

“Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories.” -Los Angeles Times “Robert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the...

A finalist for the Czech Book Award, this novel parallels Occupy Wall Street with the early twentieth-century anarchist movement and is based on true story of Lithuanian Jew Alexander Berkman who immigrated to America, became the lover of Emma Goldman, was imprisoned for the attempted assassination...

Best Translated Book Award Longlist Reader’s Digest Great New Book World Literature Today Holiday Gift Guide Recommendation “Offer[s] surprise and revelation at every turn.” -Reader’s Digest “Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.” -DANIEL ALARCÓN, author of At Night We...

ACCLAIMED WRITER, BOOKSELLER FAVORITE: Richard Wiley has received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Maria Thomas Fiction Award, and Washington State Book Award. He has also been inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Wiley’s most recent novel, Bob Stevenson, was lauded by independent booksellers...

“A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale.” -Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost Child Dr. Ruby Okada meets a charming...

O, The Oprah Magazine “Title to Pick Up Now” American Library Association “Over the Rainbow List” selection Welcome to Palmerino, the British enclave in rural Italy where Violet Paget, known to the world by her pen name and male persona, Vernon Lee, held court. In imagining the real life...

“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante,...

National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "[Helen Benedict] has emerged as one of our most thoughtful and provocative writers of war literature." —David Abrams, author of Fobbit and Brave Deeds, at the Quivering Pen "No one writes with more...

“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873–79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector...

Praise for the Previous Novels of Varley O’Connor “Thoroughly researched and lively.” —Vogue “Elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.” —Michael Chabon “Honesty and compassion inform every page, and there are passages so musical and full of grace they...

"Diane DeSanders's genius lies in her ability to capture the intimate interiority of a very particular childhood while at the same time interrogating larger questions of class, race, and religion. Hap and Hazard and the End of the World is a gorgeous, profoundly original novel." —Dawn Raffel, author...