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Ann Packer’s latest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage.

Surprising, versatile, dark and funny, the British writer has something for (almost) everyone.

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

Now unjustly overlooked, “The Ha-Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now.

Jean-Philippe Pleau’s book and play about moving up socially became a cultural reckoning in Quebec, but created a gulf with his family.

Andrew Miller’s novel “The Land in Winter,” a finalist for the Booker Prize, observes a world on the brink of cultural change.

In Britain, he sought to be “free not to have to puff some prince’s wedding / free to say up yours to Tony Blair.”

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

A novelist and biographer, she was also a preservationist, and her meticulous investigations of houses, villages and cities revealed intricate histories.