Jeanne Greene
A Short Time to Stay Here
In 1918, the little town of Hot Springs, North Carolina, held the largest World War I internment camp in the…
In Sunlight and in Shadow
In Sunlight and in Shadow, the widely anticipated novel by Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War, 1992) is…
The Bartender’s Tale
Doig’s latest (after Work Song, 2010) is a compassionate coming-of-age story, in which a few years in a boy’s life,…
Death Trap
The second in Hill’s new series (after Dead Beat, 2011), follows the adventures of Kate O’Donnell, the gel from Liverpool…
The Lost Prince
In 1898, Eleanor Burden, a young Bostonian, returns home from Vienna with a remarkable journal, which foretells the events of…
Crusoe’s Daughter
Crusoe’s Daughter, published in 1986, has been reissued to fill the gap between Gardam’s last novel (God on the Rocks,…
Waiting for Sunrise
In Boyd’s latest literary adventure (after Ordinary Thunderstorms, 2010), a young English actor begins a life of deception off-stage, mostly…
The Orchardist
At the turn of the 20th century, eastern Washington is largely rural and sparsely populated. Lives are bounded by family;…
The Sins of the Father: Clifton Chronicles II
New York City, 1939-1945. In the second of Archer’s five-part drama (Only Time Will Tell, 2011), young Harry Clifton has…
The First Lady of Fleet Street
Married Englishwomen had legal control of their property by 1893 but, regardless of class or status, their earnings and actions…
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