Saga
The Kashmir Shawl
Editors' choice
In present-day Wales, Mair Ellis is intrigued by the beautiful Kashmir shawl containing a lock of hair that she discovers…
The Life of Rebecca Jones
Editors' choice
This slim volume was originally published in Welsh to great acclaim. Rebecca Jones looks back in old age to her…
Glow
Meet four American narrators living through the years 1836 to 1941. Glow recounts the tale of the descendants of the…
The O’Briens
Behrens follows up his Governor General’s award-winning Law of Dreams with a multi-generational family saga. At the turn of the…
A Good American
Editors' choice
George, an Englishman now living in Columbia, Missouri, has written an absolutely beautiful book about one immigrant family’s experience in…
A Spell on the Water
With a strong theme of survival after loss, Marjorie Kowalski Cole dramatizes the life of a family who moves to…
The Picture Book
‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ has a considerable following on TV as well-known people delve into family history. Author…
Paint on the Smiles
Although a prolific author with many books to her name, this writer was new for me. I will not be…
Netherwood
Eve Williams is a happily married miner’s wife; her husband works in Lord Netherwood’s coal mine. When tragedy occurs, she…
The Broken Land
In this third of four books set in 1400 CE among “The People of the Longhouse” (who most of us…
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