2012

Requiem

By Frances Itani - Published 2012

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In 1997, Binosuki Okuma, an artist living in Ottawa, hears from his sister in Winnipeg. She implores him to visit “First Father,” who is ...Read Review

The Daylight Gate

By Jeanette Winterson - Published 2012Published 2013

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This is a short novel about the infamous hunting down and trial of the Lancashire witches in 1612. Jeanette Winterson admits to being fairly ...Read Review

Fortune’s Fool

By David Blixt - Published 2012

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This was my first introduction to David Blixt’s novels – and I can see what all the fuss is about – I loved it! ...Read Review

The Colour of Milk

By Nell Leyshon - Published 2012Published 2013

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“the story begins in the year of eighteen hundred and thirty. the years are of the lord.” And so begins the story of ...Read Review

Kiku’s Prayer

By Shūsaku Endō - By Van C. Gessel (trans.) - Published 2012

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InspirationalLiterary

Anyone familiar with Asian literature knows of Shūsaku Endō’s famous novel, Silence, which described the phenomenal faith and persecution of the ...Read Review

Colossus: Stone & Steel

By David Blixt - Published 2012

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This is the first of a planned series of four novels set at the time of the first Jewish-Roman war. As the story ...Read Review

Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel in Documents

By Ludmila Ulitskaya - Published 2011Published 2012

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Biographical Fiction

The phenomenal story of Holocaust survivor Oswald Rufeisen is fictionalized in Ulitskaya’s Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Rufeisen was able to save the lives ...Read Review

The Daughters of Gentlemen

By Linda Stratmann - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

The strength, and possibly also the weakness, of this Victorian mystery lies in its intricate plotting. From the unpromising start of a minor ...Read Review

Maria’s Papers

By Stephen F. Clegg - Published 2012

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Saga

The complicated history of the Chance family is revealed in this dual-time historical narrative which exposes the treacherous history of murder, intrigue, and ...Read Review

Best Kept Secret: The Clifton Chronicles, Book III

By Jeffrey Archer - Published 2012Published 2013

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Adventure

One has to admire a man who not only does it all but also lives to write about it. Archer’s series, The ...Read Review