Doubleday Canada
Paris
Editors' choice
Rutherfurd, an author known for his multigenerational epics set in some of the world’s most storied locales, tackles the City…
The Sultan’s Wife
A bewitching novel set in the 17th century, The Sultan’s Wife is an engulfing ride to exotic Morocco and into…
Sacrilege
S.J. Parris offers the reader a multisensory, cinematic experience surrounding the deadly black plague of London in 1584. Sacrilege, her…
The Midwife of Venice
In this beautifully conceived debut novel, Hannah, a young Jewish midwife living in the ghetto of Venice, has her late…
Conceit
The Great Fire of London is the framing device for Mary Novik’s insightful portrait of famous and obscure 17th-century Londoners.…
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