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Tainted Tree
This rambling book, which was sent to me for review as a historical novel, is set in 1991 and the…
Lark & Termite
It’s July 1950, and as Corporal Robert Leavitt commands a platoon in the Korean countryside, his thoughts wander to…
Burnt Shadows
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is…
Follow Me
If you enjoy family sagas layered with secrets and betrayal, stories which contain a host of entangled relationships and that…
The Turtle Catcher
It opens with a shocking scene in 1920s Minnesota, in which the title character, Lester Sutter, a mentally handicapped…
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
This sprawling tale isn’t so much about Agustin de Iturbide y Green, the grandson of the first Mexican Emperor, Agustin…
The Sound of Building Coffins
In 1891 New Orleans, a black preacher named Noonday Morningstar, with the help of his son Typhus, saves the infant…
Remittance Man
Set in Melbourne in 1885, this novel centres on Maude Hanford, “short, not quite pretty” and seeming to be as…
Galway Bay
Editors' choice
Ireland, 1848: Blight has killed the potato crop for the third time in four years, there’s no work or food,…
Decision and Destiny
The sisters who co-write as DeVa Gantt have hit their stride with the middle volume of their Colette trilogy (originally…
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