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This month we’re mixing it up with book recs from the Emirates Literature Foundation, each of which is vastly different but equally brilliant

Eley Williams’ new novel The Liars Dictionarytransports readers to and from Victorian-era and modern-day London as it follows erudite protagonist—a lexicographer named Peter Winceworth—and present-day earnest dictionary intern Mallory on a whimsical adventure with language. In an ode to the book’s historical setting, this month we present a riff on the Martinez, a 19th-century cocktail considered to be a direct precursor to the martini. Named after one of Winceworth’s delightful linguistic inventions, this version of the classic drink uses London dry gin and an even split of sw...

“The Liar’s Dictionary” is set in London and follows a tried-and-true plot device, alternating between past and present.

Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine of Wedderburn’s high-powered follow-up to The Milk Chicken Bomb is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impulsively runs away from the job and the camp where she’s been staying, and ends up in a gritty Edmonton bar. She talks her way into a job as the driver for a bar band called the Lever Men, with none of them sober enough to drive to their next gig. Along the way, Audrey furthers her cross-country education: lonesom...

The Liar's Dictionary, by Eley Williams Image: Doubleday Have you ever caught a Mountweazel? Before reading Eley Williams's beguiling first novel, I'd never heard of them. But Williams is an expert. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on them, and then she put her hard-earned knowledge to further good use in The Liar's Dictionary, which is to word lovers what potato chips are to my husband — minus the guilt. What are these sly creatures? Mountweazels are fake entries deliberately inserted into dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other trustworthy reference works as traps to catch plagiarists a...