20th Century
The Maytrees
Editors' choice
The novel opens in Provincetown, Massachusetts, just after the Second World War. Toby Maytree, a thirty-year-old poet and part-time…
Coward on the Beach
Dick Coward might be a coward by name but not by nature. He is a bona fide hero; unfortunately, no…
The Chase
In 1950, Montana’s Flathead Lake gives up a dark secret: the remains of a steam locomotive (plus boxcar) and its…
Whitethorn
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Do not be misled by the blurb on the back cover of Bryce Courtenay’s new novel. The Second World War…
Folly du Jour
Paris, 21 May 1927. Commander Joe Sandilands DSO of Scotland Yard lands at Le Bourget airport seconds before Charles Lindbergh…
The World in Pancho’s Eyes
When Mikey is born in August of 1930, his father, Paul Summers, is working hard as a cowboy. He is…
Sway
As I stood on the outside and watched the careers of musical groups like The Beatles and The Stones, I…
Baby Doe Tabor
Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was as famous in her day as any personality gracing the cover of a…
Vienna Blood
Editors' choice
In this, the second installment of the Liebermann Papers, Tallis, a practicing clinical psychologist, beautifully evokes the upheaval in the…
The Rowing Lesson
Harold Klein was a skinny Jewish South African kid with a hard-working general store proprietor father and a high-strung mother.…
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