Sally Zigmond
Awakening
Editors' choice
1860. A year after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking Origin of Species, the evangelical community of Wiltshire has far more…
Paper Moon
The novel is set just after the end of World War Two, and the author captures well that sense of…
Elijah’s Mermaid
Editors' choice
There is always a fear that an author’s second novel will not live up to the first. I was very…
The Life of Rebecca Jones
Editors' choice
This slim volume was originally published in Welsh to great acclaim. Rebecca Jones looks back in old age to her…
The Somnambulist
This assured debut novel tells the story of Phoebe Turner, a young girl who lives in the East End of…
Remarkable Creatures
In this novel, Tracy Chevalier turns her novelist’s eye to the life of Mary Anning who, although reasonably well known…
Give Me Tomorrow
Elizabeth Lord writes warm and dependable sagas about the lives of women in the early 20th century. This one, first…
Testament of Youth
What more can one say about this classic autobiography? It is one of those books that absolutely everyone should read;…
Tudor Rose
This novel tells the fascinating real-life story of Rose Hickman, née Locke. Nearing the end of her life, she…
The Naqib’s Daughter
As in her previous, acclaimed novel, The Cairo House, the setting is Cairo, but now it is the late…
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