Saga
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
This novel is set in South Carolina, America’s Deep South, and is written with Southern dialogue and idioms. Bonnie…
A Map of Glass
Set in Ontario, Jane Urquhart’s latest novel is both contemporary and historical, though the rather disturbing prologue doesn’t make…
A Broken Mirror
As the biographical note explains, Rodoreda is a Catalan writer now being rediscovered as literary force more than 20…
The Rebels of Ireland
Editors' choice
Rutherfurd’s latest bestseller concludes his sweeping look at Irish history first begun in The Princes of Ireland (Dublin in…
A Sound Like Thunder
The novel is set in Fairhope, Alabama, a small Gulf Coast town during the early years of World War…
Voices from a Time
With Voices from a Time, winner of the Zerilli-Marimo Prize in Italy, Silvia Bonucci weaves a spellbinding psychological tale…
Beautiful Dreamer
“I were in for some nails. I were looking in the barrel, and sorting them out and in he comes,…
The Time of Our Lives
It is the 1950s and England is in the grip of coronation fever. In the seaside town of Kingshaven…
Let the Bells Ring
Let the Bells Ring is a hefty read in the tradition of the gentle, romantic saga, and the chapters are…
Hedwig and Berti
Hedwig and Berti is the saga of a mismatched upper-class German Jewish couple who escape from Nazi Germany, going first…
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