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Comeback Love
Told through a series of past and present episodes, Comeback Love focuses on the theme of timeless love. Aspiring journalist…
The House of the Wind
Readers of multi-period epics will relish this story. Hardie has skillfully blended the themes and settings of the 21st-century United…
The English Monster, Or, The Melancholy Transactions of William Ablass
Before the advent of Saucy Jack, the Ratcliffe Highway murders were the most brutal to occur in London’s East End.…
Blessed are the Dead
Editors' choice
It’s difficult to decide what is best about Malla Nunn’s most recent novel, Blessed are the Dead. The setting is…
The Very Thought of You
This engaging novel was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction, and it is not difficult to understand why.…
Mother of the Believers
This was a book that had to be written, and Kamran Pasha, with his dual background of Hollywood and descent…
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