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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
We readers of Jane Austen may feel we know the author by her characters and novels, but factors such as world…
The Knot
This is a perfect book for the green-fingered reader – and also for translators! Henry Lyte has made it his…
Crown and Country
Just imagine that breathtaking moment when you become the ruler of Great Britain. Your father or brother dies, or perhaps…
Waiting for Robert Capa
Almost everything in this novel violates the rules writers are told to follow. The author uses fragmented sentences, tells a…
The King’s Diamond
Richard Dansey, of a London merchant family, longs to escape from his domineering mother. He is obsessed with gems and…
Liberty’s Exiles
The American Loyalists were not the snobbish grandees of legend, but a diverse group with different motives for loyalty to…
The Wives of Henry Oades
The Wives of Henry Oades is an engrossing late 19th-century tale of unwitting bigamy. Henry and Margaret Oades move from…
The Book of Fires
Editors' choice
Jane Borodale’s stunning debut novel begins with that classic element of suspense, a countdown to an explosion—not so much of…
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
In The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, de Lisle tells the story of Lady Jane Grey and her lesser-known…
The Sixth Wife
This is the author’s second foray into historical fiction. The Queen of Subtleties told the story of Anne Boleyn. Here…
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