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73 Dove Street
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London in a damp, drizzly autumn of 1958. Edie Budd escapes from her abusive husband Frank and finds a room in a drab lodging ...Read Review
Disobedient
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Rome, 1599: six-year-old Artemisia Gentileschi is hoisted onto the shoulders of the painter Caravaggio in order to witness the public beheading of Beatrice Cenci. ...Read Review
The Winter List
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This sixth in the popular Damian Seeker series will attract readers fond of the historical crime genre. We are in York in the ...Read Review
The Isolated Séance (An Irregular Detective mystery, 1)
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London, 1895. Twenty-six-year-old Timothy Badger was a street urchin of twelve when Sherlock Holmes began using him as his spy. The Baker Street Irregulars ...Read Review
The Square of Sevens
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A girl called Red writes a memoir. It begins in 1730 with her hard, nomadic life as the child of a gypsy fortune teller. ...Read Review
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
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No mud, no lotus. This aphorism captures the essence of Lisa See’s latest novel: pithy, yet entertaining; thought-provoking, yet down-to-earth; dark, yet ...Read Review
Queen of Exiles
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Hayti (Haiti) became a sovereign nation in 1804, free of slavery, after defeating Napoleon’s forces. The formerly enslaved now rule the new nation. ...Read Review
Dulcinea
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15th-16th century Spain. Dolça Llull Prat, the young, artistic daughter of a Barcelona aristocrat, lives a carefree life of luxury until ...Read Review
The Black Crescent
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Set in 1950s Morocco, amid growing resistance to French rule, The Black Crescent is a novel about family ties, societal change and contrast ...Read Review
Loot
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The word that does justice to the British Raj’s plunder in India had to be borrowed: “Loot,” as Tania James has explained ...Read Review
