Touchstone
The Years That Followed
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In 1966 Dublin, Calista is seventeen and fettered by her strict parents’ standards – standards about social class, the right cutlery to use, the people ...Read Review
Monsoon Summer
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Kit Smallwood has just arrived at Wickham Farm in Oxfordshire, where a friend is founding a charity to send midwives to the Moonstone ...Read Review
Please Enjoy Your Happiness
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Brinkley-Rogers began writing his tender memoir after finding old love letters in a long-forgotten book of poems. His love ...Read Review
Three Sisters, Three Queens
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One of the less documented Tudor women is explored in Gregory’s latest 16th-century read. Margaret, elder sister of Henry VIII, was a ...Read Review
Mata Hari’s Last Dance
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In this latest novel by one of my favorite authors, Michelle Moran shakes off her familiar plot design (humble main character, ruthless antagonist, ...Read Review
The Incarnations
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The Incarnations is unlike any book you are likely to read this year. And that is a good thing, because you will not ...Read Review
The Taming of the Queen
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The post-Pilgrimage of Grace religious upheaval late in Henry VIII’s reign finds credence in another of Philippa Gregory’s prolific Tudor series. ...Read Review
The Tapestry
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Once Sister Joanna of a Dominican priory, civilian Joanna spends her time weaving tapestries, a skill she learned as a novice. In quiet ...Read Review
Rebel Queen
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Although a heroine in India, Queen Lakshmi of Jhansi is little-known to the rest of the world. Her story of resistance to the ...Read Review
The King’s Curse
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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, is an often mentioned background character in Tudor fiction. Though her name is well known, her life as ...Read Review