20th Century
The Crooked Cross
This is a masterly fiction of events and characters who, in 1933, hatch an elaborate plot to kill Hitler in…
Prayers for Sale
This charming novel follows the life of 86-year-old Hennie Comfort as revealed in the stories she spins for her newly…
Lily’s Journey
The story is set in 1952. After the death of her mother, 15-year-old Lily Hayes leaves London to live with…
The Day the Falls Stood Still
Editors' choice
Bess Heath is in her next to last year at the Loretto Academy in Niagara Falls in 1915 when her…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
This is the fourth in Melvyn Bragg’s autobiographical quartet of novels about Joe Richardson, the working-class boy we first meet…
Honolulu
Originally named “Regret” in Korea by her parents, who had prayed for a male baby twenty-five years earlier, Jin chooses…
Ultimate Betrayal
When Katrina Jones finds out the man she loves is an IRA terrorist on the run from the police, she…
In The Valley of the Kings
This is Howard Carter’s story, and how he, though not a gentleman, was able to work in Egyptian archeology during…
Sahwira
In a Methodist mission in Rhodesia in 1964, two 12-year-old boys call themselves Sahwira, meaning best friends who are closer…
Freud’s War
Sigmund Freud has been extensively written about, but Helen Fry’s book concerns his life as a father to Martin, and…
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