20th Century
The Silver Thread
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The Silver Thread is a dual-timeline novel. The main storyline follows Isobel (Bel) Bright between 1875 and 1923. It opens in London. Eighteen-year-old Bel’s ...Read Review
The Scorpion Thief (Threads of the Lost Myth)
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It is 1976, and the spectre of war looms over Cairo as American-Israeli museum curator Noura Marquette organizes an exhibition of never-before-seen objects from ...Read Review
Time for Courage
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The Ingelse family lives on a farm outside Utrecht in the Netherlands—an ideal base for their Dutch Resistance operations. It is 1944, and ...Read Review
Daughter of the Titanic
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Cauchi’s fictional biography introduces Helen Melville (Mel) Russell Cooke in 1973, when researcher, Dr Catherine Haynes, having come across a 1959 David Rolt portrait, ...Read Review
Finding Ida
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This is a structurally surprising book, but it works beautifully. The narrative begins in Singapore in 1955, where Luiza, settled into a happy marriage ...Read Review
Thistlemarsh
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1919 England. Mouse Dunne has been left two options: Within 30 days, she must restore a crumbling manor house and its furnishings or get married. ...Read Review
The Tatiana File
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Do secrets survive centuries of upheaval, war, and betrayal, only to be unearthed accidentally? The Tatiana File deciphers the answer by linking archaeologist ...Read Review
The Chambermaid’s Key
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Graham continues illuminating fascinating facets of Canadian history, upping the ante plotting-wise with her new dual-timeline novel centering on a storied Toronto landmark. ...Read Review
Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World
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Much has been written about WWII, but Hilmes’s slim book focuses specifically on the summer months of 1945, after Germany surrendered to the ...Read Review
The Moonlight Runner
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During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922), the people of Ireland lived precariously. Although two hundred thousand Irishmen had fought in WWI, Ireland ...Read Review
