Editors' Choice

The Shogun’s Queen

By Lesley Downer - Published 2016

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January 1853, or the Year of the Dog, third year of the Kaei era, a yang metal year – and an armed American fleet is ...Read Review

The Lost Girls

By Heather Young - Published 2016

Genres:

Thriller

As I said, I am the last. Since Lilith’s passing three years ago, the story of that summer has been mine alone ...Read Review

The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

By James L. Haley - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureNautical

An award-winning historian who also writes fiction can be expected to deliver excellence, and Haley doesn’t disappoint. In reply to currently popular ...Read Review

The Dragon’s Hoard

By Cate James (illus.) - By Lari Don - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young AdultEpicSaga

I really enjoyed these eleven stories from the Viking sagas, obviously carefully chosen for their variety. Most involve fighting but sometimes, as in ...Read Review

News of the World

By Paulette Jiles - Published 2016

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LiteraryWestern

I loved this slim, profoundly moving book so much that, as soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again. Paulette ...Read Review

Memory of Light

By Mollie Cox Bryan - Published 2016

Genres:

Epic

The Battle of Gettysburg was the major turning point in the American Civil War. This vibrant novel uses the lives of two historical ...Read Review

The Joyce Girl

By Annabel Abbs - Published 2016Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

In Zurich in 1934, Lucia, the emotionally frail daughter of iconic Irish author James Joyce, is undergoing the “talking cure” with Carl Jung, trying ...Read Review

Camille

By Bob Marshall-Andrews - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

Camille Lefebre is an actress but, because of the laws in France about women appearing on stage, she acts as her twin brother, ...Read Review

Sun Born

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - By W. Michael Gear - Published 2016

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Sun Born takes readers on an historical and mythical journey back in time 1,000 years to the vast and booming metropolis of the Cahokia ...Read Review

The Birdcage

By Clive Aslet - Published 2016

Genres:

Thriller

It is 1916, and for the young men and women of Britain, exotic and enticing Salonika promises chances of heroism and honour. Sunny, an ...Read Review

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