Sceptre
Sunnyside
Editors' choice
Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is…
The Devil’s Paintbrush
Paris, 1903. A homosexual scandal has shattered a British military hero’s career. Sir Hector MacDonald is at his nadir when…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
This is the fourth in Melvyn Bragg’s autobiographical quartet of novels about Joe Richardson, the working-class boy we first meet…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
I knew Melvyn Bragg at Oxford; I left college the term before the action in Remember Me begins, so I…
The Great Lover
Editors' choice
The island of Tahiti holds a fascination for troubled souls. Gauguin lived there in the 1890s. So too, in…
Gentlemen of the Road
Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon has “gone in search of a little adventure” in this impressive genre-twisting tale set along the…
Tom Bedlam
The author has Charles Dickens among his favorite authors, but Tom Bedlam reminds me more of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett,…
Rifling Paradise
Charles Redbourne, middle-aged dilettante, leaves his English country estate in disgrace after his callous treatment of a discarded male love…
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