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Enchantments
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In this novel’s afterword, author Harrison explains that as an 11-year-old she latched onto Robert Massie’s masterful biography, Nicholas and Alexandra. ...Read Review
The Stolen Bride
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When Malgwyn accompanies King Arthur to help settle a dispute in Doged’s troubled lands, they arrive to find more than ambitious nobles ...Read Review
A Life of Bright Ideas
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In friendships, there’s usually a leader and a follower. Such is the friendship of Winnalee Malone and Button Peters. Winnalee was the ...Read Review
History of a Pleasure Seeker
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Amsterdam, 1907. The protagonist of Mason’s silky bildungsroman (after Natural Elements, 2010), is determined to rise in the world. Handsome young Piet Baron plans ...Read Review
The Life of Rebecca Jones
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This slim volume was originally published in Welsh to great acclaim. Rebecca Jones looks back in old age to her long life on ...Read Review
The Book of Madness and Cures
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That this is a book of madness is immediately obvious; Doctor Ernesto Mondini has become unhinged. His final letter arrives in Venice from ...Read Review
You Are Not Like Other Mothers
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You Are Not Like Other Mothers is a simple title for a book that is neither simple fiction nor dry enough to be ...Read Review
Into the Valley of Death
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The book opens in Meerut, 1853. Ensign Harry Standish returns home to find that his father has committed suicide, driven to this desperate act ...Read Review
You, Fascinating You
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This biographical novel has a beautiful nostalgic quality, the sort of feeling you get when watching classic noir films, browsing vintage postcards or ...Read Review
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
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If the first four novels of Gyles Brandreth’s series of Victorian murder mysteries had never existed to whet our appetites for another ...Read Review
