20th Century
Kill My Mother
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This graphic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Feiffer is a gender-bending take on 1930s-40s noir. In 1933, teen-aged bad apple Annie tortures her ...Read Review
The Venetian Venture
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Rosy Gilchrist is in Venice, authorised to offer twenty guineas on behalf of the British Museum for a specific signed and annotated first ...Read Review
Backlands
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Once again, Michael McGarrity brings us the awe-inspiring but also harsh and unforgiving desert and mountain landscapes of the Tularosa that are the ...Read Review
Land of Love and Drowning
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If I could only read one novel this year, Land of Love and Drowning would be it. I wasn’t captured by the ...Read Review
The End of the Book
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Two narratives alternate in this fictional experiment. The first is set in Chicago beginning in 2008. In order to pay off debt accumulated getting ...Read Review
Valentine Joe
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A time-slip novel featuring a modern teenager and events from the First World War published that such a war ‘must never happen again.’ ...Read Review
Graffiti Knight
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Wilm is a rebellious teenager growing up in Leipzig, southeast Germany, under Soviet occupation after WWII. Wilm’s father finds him a handful; ...Read Review
Sacred Mountain
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Sacred Mountain by Robert Ferguson is a well-written and interesting story with two parallel narratives, one set in Burma 1943 and one in Nepal ...Read Review
The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel
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It’s 1950s California, and P.I. Philip Marlowe sits staring at a silent telephone in a quiet room, empty of eager clients. ...Read Review
Annie’s Promise
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1950s Britain is re-building after the war. Annie Manon has had a traumatic war as a prisoner of the Japanese; now, she wants ...Read Review