20th Century
The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers
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The title says it all: this is a novel about the fading glory of the famous Imperial Ballet of Russia. You can anticipate ...Read Review
The River Widow
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Adah Branch and her family are caught up in the disastrous 1937 flood in Paducah, Kentucky. Rescuing items from their farm, Adah’s husband ...Read Review
The Hidden
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Jersey under German occupation in the Second World War. Dora Simon is a German-Jewish refugee in her mid-20s, working as a midwife ...Read Review
The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
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In 1936 in Singapore, teenage orphan Su Lin knows that her uncle wants to give her away in marriage to a suitable husband—that ...Read Review
The Lieutenant’s Nurse
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Eva Cassidy climbs aboard the steamship SS Lurline with a new name and plans for a fresh start. Recently enlisted as an Army ...Read Review
We Hope for Better Things
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We Hope for Better Things chronicles the histories of three Balsam women: Elizabeth, a Detroit Free Press journalist who receives a strange request ...Read Review
Beneath a Frosty Moon
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It’s 1940 and teenager Cora Stubbs is not happy about being evacuated from Sunderland to the Northumbrian countryside with her four younger siblings. ...Read Review
Digger
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This beautifully-produced picture book tells its story in single sentences and subtle watercolour illustrations. The brief texts are interspersed with one line of ...Read Review
Temptation Rag
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Bernard weaves a tale of real and fictional characters set during the rise and fall of ragtime music in the U.S., between 1895 ...Read Review
Ella Maud: The Novel of an Unsolved True Crime Story
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A beautiful young woman vanishes; her body is later found. The press runs wild, evidence is irrelevant in the glare of rampant media ...Read Review
