Editors' Choice
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
Viper Wine
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The observant reader will immediately deduce that there is something a little unusual about this novel set in 17th-century England if he or ...Read Review
Sapphire Skies
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In 2000, Lily has left her home in Australia for a job in Moscow, where she hopes to build a new life after a ...Read Review
Goddess
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Motherless Julie d’Aubigny is brought up in the palatial stables of Versailles by her fencing-instructor father. He treats her much as any ...Read Review
Plague
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Restoration England is often portrayed as a licentious romp where Charles II and his bevy of mistresses enjoyed an endless party. The end ...Read Review
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the Great War
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Children/Young AdultShort Stories
The objects that inspired these eleven stories are very varied and include a tin helmet, some sheet music, the nose from a Zeppelin ...Read Review
An Appetite for Violets
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In 1772 Biddy, under-cook at a Cheshire estate, is forced to accompany Lady Carinna, her new young mistress, to Italy while Carinna’s elderly ...Read Review
Sedition
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As a fan of K.M. Grant’s historical fiction for children, I was eager to read her adult debut. Set in London ...Read Review
The Beatles
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
This is the story of the Beatles’ decade of fame, 1960 to 1970, but it is much more than that. It’s also the story ...Read Review
An Elegant Solution
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The name “Bernoulli” is as recognizable to mathematicians as “Tudor” is to historians. The Bernoulli brothers, Jacob and Johann, each in turn the ...Read Review
