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The Wettest County in the World
During the Prohibition era, moonshine flowed freely through the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, and few bootleggers were more productive,…
The Last Station
This ambitious book sets out to give an account of Tolstoy’s final year (1910) that blurs the boundaries between…
The Angel of History
Walter Benjamin leaves Berlin to escape Nazi persecution and begins a new life in Paris. Ignoring the impending signs of…
Light
Off the Isle of Man lies the tiny island of Ellan Bride, an outpost of fabulous isolation, often veiled from…
The Blackest Bird
On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York…
The Book of Samson
An angel announces to Samson’s barren mother that she will give birth to a son who will be remembered for…
The Pure Land
Closely based on historical fact, this is the story of Thomas Glover, the young Aberdeen merchant who became known as…
Memoirs of a Highland Lady
“On looking back I find little essential to regret and much, Oh so much, to be thankful for”. This is…
The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories
The Crimson Petal and the White, Faber’s monumental novel of a Victorian prostitute’s progress, won him fans all over the…
The Secret River
The Secret River follows the life of William Thornhill, born into the working class of London in the late 1700s.…
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