Little Brown
Culloden: Scotland’s Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
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The battle that ended Bonnie Prince Charlie’s hopes in 1746 had consequences that exploded across the globe. Trevor Royle traces the effects of ...Read Review
Rush Oh!
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Australians may be familiar with the shore whaling enterprises that operated in Twofold Bay, New South Wales, until the early 20th century. A ...Read Review
Girl in the Blue Coat
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Girl in the Blue Coat is a sensitively told coming-of-age story set in the Netherlands during the German occupation. Hanneke is a Dutch ...Read Review
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
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Dynasty is the story of a century of the Julio-Claudians and a hundred years of their cruelty in the pursuit of ever-expanding political ...Read Review
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
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Jiaolong speaks to her daughter: “I follow the Iron Way… the world of wushu. Of martial arts… The wushu warrior steps outside society. ...Read Review
Early One Morning
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In 1939, as families are being deported from an Italian Jewish ghetto on their way to almost certain death, a mother on the train ...Read Review
Tightrope
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April 1945, and Marian Sutro, a young woman with English-French parentage, has returned to her parents’ home in Oxford after working for the Special ...Read Review
Manners & Mutiny: Finishing School, Book the Fourth
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Sophronia Temminnick and her particular friends are nearing the end of their careers at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing School. The proper Victorian establishment ...Read Review
Minna’s Patchwork Coat
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In this reworking of Mills’ picture book, The Rag Coat, Minna, a girl living in Appalachia at the turn of the 20th century ...Read Review
The Witches: Salem, 1692
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This is a very detailed and erudite account of the infamous witchcraft frenzy which afflicted the small village of Salem, Massachusetts and then ...Read Review
