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Shadow of Colossus
As the hetaera, or bound courtesan, of one of the most powerful men in Rhodes, Tessa has more respect and…
The House at Riverton
In the halcyon days before the First World War, Grace Bradley goes to work as a maid at Riverton…
It’s One of Ours
This is a story that begins on the day of the first air raids in London, 1939 and weaves…
Wave of Terror
Like much of what went on in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, Wave of Terror is a…
Before Green Gables
In 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery first published Anne of Green Gables, the story of the irrepressible redhead who brings…
The Last Cowgirl
Seven-year-old Darlene (Dickie) Sinfield’s life takes an altering turn when her teacher father decides to uproot his family from…
The Spanish Bow
In the wake of 9/11, American journalist and travel writer Andromeda Romano-Lax asked herself: if I could write about…
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
This a poignant love story spanning three periods of India’s turbulent history between 1907 and the mid 1950s and…
A Golden Age
Tahmina Anam, the author of this first novel, begins powerfully: “Dear Husband, I lost our children today.” The voice…
Skylark Farm
Editors' choice
Arslan’s luminous debut novel tells the unbearable story of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ethnic Armenian Yerwant Arslanian…
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