Marina Maxwell
Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
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In 1933 the body of Usha Pramal is found in a London canal, but Scotland Yard is slow to solve…
Little Exiles
Convict transportation to Australia had ceased by the 1860s, but for the next century Britain sanctioned the exportation of another…
Amber Road
Singapore has long been a strategic British colony but, as 1941 dawns, its residents are ill-prepared for what is about…
Parlor Games
Mae West once quipped that “good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere,” and this other May (Dugas)…
Child of Vengeance
Bennosuke is a lonely 13-year-old with a skin condition who lives in the village of Miyamoto and dreams of becoming…
The Aviator’s Wife
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Anne Morrow leads a charmed, privileged life, and all her dreams seem to come true when she marries America’s aviator…
Freud’s Sister
In 1938, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa from Vienna with certain individuals of his choice. His four elderly…
Hemingway’s Girl
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Ernest “Papa” Hemingway seems to hold perennial fascination for other writers, and this novel is woven around his time in…
Park Lane
This novel has its origins in Frances Osborne’s own family background, and an inevitable comparison to the TV series Downton…
Waratah House
On a ship to Australia in the 1880s, Marina is orphaned after a fever outbreak and is taken into the…
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