20th Century
The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel will always be known as an iconic symbol of couture and high-end perfume. In The Queen of Paris, the reader ...Read Review
Mortmain Hall
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Martin Edwards describes his book as a homage to the Golden Age of English detective fiction, which flourished in the inter-war years and ...Read Review
The American Fiancée
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This rollicking Canadian novel, composed in lavish storytelling style, sweeps back and forth through the 20th century, spanning the Lamontagne family history, along ...Read Review
The Orphan’s Gift
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Spanning over 70 years, Renita D’Silva’s newest novel is a touching generational saga about women searching for belonging, falling in love, enduring ...Read Review
Beyond Black There Is No Colour: The Story of Forough Farrokhzad
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In the last century, three major women poets died in their prime. Two, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, took their own lives. Forough ...Read Review
The Road to Delano
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In the late 1960s, a young man fights to save his family’s legacy amidst an unsettling time for migrant workers. Jack Duncan ...Read Review
The Six-Week Solution
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The Six-Week Solution is set in 1950s Nevada, where out-of-towners from Hollywood stars to politicians’ wives flock to establish six-week residencies near Reno ...Read Review
A Child Lost: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel
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This fifth in the award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Clive Howard series, set in Depression-era Chicago, finds Henrietta in mourning after a miscarriage but ...Read Review
Africaville
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Colvin’s debut novel, a literary saga spanning over seventy years, is as much about the legacy of a place as the place ...Read Review
What We Did In The Dark
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Catherine MacFarlane Carswell (1879-1946) was a novelist, biographer of Robert Burns, and journalist who, though she excelled in her studies at Glasgow University, ...Read Review