In Gabriella Saab’s The Survivors Guild, the Titanic is not so much a ship as a threshold. The novel begins where the familiar story usually ends, with the living required to become human again.

Korey Rowe, the fugitive filmmaker has become, in middle age, a local businessman and positive community figure. His wars have merely become quieter, the kind fought through memory, routine, discovery and the difficult maintenance of inner peace.

There is something theological about David Kibbe’s approach to getting dressed. For more than forty years, while the fashion industry has busied itself inventing fresh reasons for women to distrust their bodies, David has been preaching a gentler doctrine. Love-based beauty.

Judith Starkston is a classicist as well as a novelist. She is drawn to the places where archaeology, history, and myth don’t agree and imagination must take over. In Achilles’s Wife, part of her Trojan Thread series, she turns her attention to Deidameia, a princess remembered by antiquity...

Hester Smith, begins in 1934 as a shy, bookish spinster delivering the post by bicycle through the fictional Dorset village of Puddlington. Then war arrives, and Hester becomes the bearer of War Department telegrams. Suddenly, the village postmistress is carrying death from house to house.

Nathan Jorgenson’s new novel, Otto’s Portal, begins with a metaphysical: if the soul leaves the body at death, what keeps it attached while we are alive?