Fourth Estate
The Naqib’s Daughter
As in her previous, acclaimed novel, The Cairo House, the setting is Cairo, but now it is the late…
The Last Cavalier
During his lifetime, Alexandre Dumas planned to write a series of novels that would include all of French history from…
The Flight
This is a powerful story of a rarely told episode of World War II. Early in 1945, Ida and her…
Inés of My Soul
Editors' choice
Doña Inés Suárez tells the epic story of her life and the conquest of Chile in this fictional biography. Inés,…
The Birth House
Editors' choice
This novel, already and deservedly a best-seller in Canada, tells the story of Dora Rare and her struggles to…
Zorro
Though adventure plays a large part, this is as much a tale of how Diego de la Vega evolved into…
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