Fig Tree
The Other Typist
Police typist Rose Baker records confessions in a precinct on New York’s Lower East Side. There’s plenty of work to…
Warpaint
During World War II a War Advisory Artists Committee (WAAC) was put in place to ensure the survival of British…
Ashenden
Editors' choice
Ashenden, the delightful debut novel from Elizabeth Wilhide, traces the life of a beautiful English house from the time of…
Winter Games
A crossover novel between chick-lit and historical drama, and charting specific and interrelating events in the lives of a grandmother…
The Buddha in the Attic
This slim, elegant novel is written from an unusual group perspective. We follow the thoughts and life events of the…
22 Britannia Road
Editors' choice
In the aftermath of World War II, Polish native Silvana Nowak flees her homeland, devastated by war, on a ship…
Constable in Love, Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
When John Constable, a struggling young painter, fell in love with Maria Bicknell, daughter of a prominent London lawyer, it…
The Help
Editors' choice
In 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter, a young white aspiring journalist, comes home from Ole Miss and decides to document…
Counting the Stars
Ancient Rome in the late Republic was an unsettled place: violence, corruption and murder were a tangible part of the…
Consequences
If you like your multi-generational family sagas breezy and easy to read, and with if not a happy ending, then…
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