20th Century
Death At Victoria Dock
This is the fourth in that delightful 1920s mystery series by Kerry Greenwood about the Honourable Phryne Fisher. Phryne is…
Gatsby’s Girl
In 1915, F. Scott Fitzgerald met a society girl, Ginevra King, with whom he had a brief romance before she…
Another Green World
In 1929, four young Americans journey to an international youth conference in Weimar, Germany, which promises the dawning of a…
Tinisima
Tinisima opens with a vibrant description of the assassination of Julio Antonio Mella, a Cuban revolutionary fighting in 1920s Mexico,…
The Skin Of The Sky
The Skin of the Sky is a fictionalized biography of Mexican astronomer Lorenzo de Tena. Beginning in the 1930s, Florencia,…
The Face In The Cemetery
In 1914 Egypt, the Mamur Zapt – equivalent of the head of the Political Branch of England’s C.I.D – was…
The Serpent’s Tooth
Michelle Paver has written a very good book in The Serpent’s Tooth. It is the final part of her Eden…
The Flowers Of Ballygrace
Set in the 1950s Ireland, this novel traces how love and loss shape the emotional growth of Kate Flowers,…
The Light Of Evening
Editors' choice
The novel opens in the latter half of the 20th century. Dilly, bedridden in a small rural Irish hospital, reminisces…
The Last Town On Earth
The year is 1918 and we are deep in the forests of WashingtonState among the townsfolk of Commonwealth, a logging…
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