20th Century
Remember Me
A saga set in Edwardian Britain, this is the story of Maddy Moon, a 17-year-old singer with a touring company…
The Bolter
Frances Osborne, the great-granddaughter of Idina Sackville, has written a shockingly candid biography of a brazen woman who defied the…
An Irish Country Doctor
More faction than fiction, for Doctor Taylor calls heavily on his own experiences as an Ulster country doctor, the characters…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
I knew Melvyn Bragg at Oxford; I left college the term before the action in Remember Me begins, so I…
The Englishman’s Boy
Two story lines present the title character, caught up in a massacre in 1870s Saskatchewan, and the machinations of 1920s…
The Innocent Spy
In wartime London, Detective Stratton is investigating the death of silent screen star Mabel Morgan. Although it appears to be…
A Mad Desire to Dance
This elegiac novel follows Doriel, a man who fears he is either mad or possessed by a dybukk, and Dr.…
Cutting for Stone
Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates…
Tainted Tree
This rambling book, which was sent to me for review as a historical novel, is set in 1991 and the…
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