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Watching Jimmy
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It’s 1958, and Canada doesn’t yet have universal health care. That’s bad news for Jimmy, who was brain-damaged by his “Uncle” ...Read Review
Bone River
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This beautifully written, lyrical literary novel engages with the themes of the despoliation of the Pacific Northwest’s native culture and 19th-century concerns ...Read Review
Emerald Star
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1891. Fourteen-year-old Hetty Feather has had a life of adventure but also tragedy. Left in an orphanage as a baby, she was fostered with ...Read Review
World’s End
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This story starts in 43 AD in the earliest period of the Roman occupation of what will later become England. The hero is Calgacus, ...Read Review
The Last Runaway
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A young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, has left her civilized home of Bridport in England for the wild, untamed wilderness of Ohio. The ...Read Review
Betrayal
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‘The repossession of Buenos Aires has been stained with such deliberate acts of treachery and perfidy as are not to be instanced in ...Read Review
The Aviator’s Wife
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Anne Morrow leads a charmed, privileged life, and all her dreams seem to come true when she marries America’s aviator hero, Charles ...Read Review
Siege 13
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For six weeks in the winter of 1944-45, the Soviet Army assaulted Budapest, defended by the German and Hungarian armies. Over 800,000 civilians were ...Read Review
The Little Shadows
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Canadian writer Marina Endicott’s novel is set in Canada around the time of the First World War. It tells the story of ...Read Review
A Possible Life
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How do the choices we make radically change our lives, in terms of our overall trajectory, our relationships, our beliefs? In Faulks’ (Charlotte ...Read Review
