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Once on a Moonless Night
Editors' choice
This latest novel from the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is another tour de force of intertwined…
Guinevere’s Gamble
Book II of the Chrysalis Queen Quartet for younger readers chronicles the formative years of the woman destined to become…
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
During the 18th century, Britain moved from following the French and Italian styles of gardening to become the foremost nation…
The Bolter
Frances Osborne, the great-granddaughter of Idina Sackville, has written a shockingly candid biography of a brazen woman who defied the…
Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
The Bonaparte clan depicted in Flora Fraser’s biography could rival any reality TV family for scandal. Pauline Bonaparte is thought…
A Mad Desire to Dance
This elegiac novel follows Doriel, a man who fears he is either mad or possessed by a dybukk, and Dr.…
Cutting for Stone
Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates…
Lark & Termite
It’s July 1950, and as Corporal Robert Leavitt commands a platoon in the Korean countryside, his thoughts wander to…
Pictures at an Exhibition
A young man’s attempts to please a father he perceives as disparaging and indifferent form the core of this…
The Other Half of Life
Everyone tells fifteen-year-old Thomas Werkmann that he’s finally escaping Nazi Germany on the MS St. Francis, bound for Cuba, but…
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