Doubleday
Paris
Editors' choice
Rutherfurd, an author known for his multigenerational epics set in some of the world’s most storied locales, tackles the City…
Harvest
This affecting novel offers a glimpse into the life of a remote English village poised between the feudalism of the…
Queenie
It’s 1953, Coronation year. Elsie Kettle lives with her Nan – her unreliable mother is a chorus girl and rarely…
The Monster’s Lament
London in the spring of 1945, and the country is starting to think about the ending of the Second World…
Emerald Star
Editors' choice
1891. Fourteen-year-old Hetty Feather has had a life of adventure but also tragedy. Left in an orphanage as a baby,…
The Pigeon Pie Mystery
Princess “Mink” is left destitute after the sudden death of her father — a displaced Maharaja — in a scandalous…
Parlor Games
Mae West once quipped that “good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere,” and this other May (Dugas)…
Child of Vengeance
Bennosuke is a lonely 13-year-old with a skin condition who lives in the village of Miyamoto and dreams of becoming…
The Malice of Fortune
Editors' choice
In the midst of an upsurge in interest in the Borgias, Ennis’s new historical thriller is, at the very least,…
The History Keepers: Circus Maximus
Rome, AD 27. In their second time-slip adventure, Jake and the History Keepers find themselves in Ancient Rome. The evil…
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