20th Century
Hazel
(1) London, 1913. Thirteen-year-old Hazel Mull-Dare is being brought up as a young lady – in careful isolation from anything…
I Want to Live
This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s…
Pinkerton’s Secret
This novel is told from the point of view of Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, who became the backbone of…
Dreamers of the Day
(1) Mary Doria Russell takes readers from post-World War I Ohio to Egypt and back again in this roman à…
My Enemy’s Cradle
Cyrla, child of a Polish Jewish father and a Dutch mother, is sent to live with her late mother’s…
On Account of Conspicuous Women
In 1919, Richmond debutante Ina Fitzhugh, widowed after just a few days of marriage, decides to make a change…
A Wartime Marriage
It is 1918 and Captain Harry Phillips is a prisoner of war in a Romanian hospital. When Major Carlsen tells…
A Perfect Waiter
Erneste is a perfect waiter: now, in 1966 at the Restaurant am Berg; in 1934, at the Grand Hotel…
Bleeding Heart Square
Legend has it that the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square and, even in 1934, it is an…
A Pale Horse
Tenth in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Pale Horse finds Rutledge searching for a missing man in Berkshire,…
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