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The Académie
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Eliza Monroe, daughter of the future president of the United States, arrives at a French boarding school in 1799 ostensibly to learn conversation skills, ...Read Review
The Luminist
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When Catherine Colebrook goes to Ceylon to join her husband, a functionary with the East India Company, she’s already obsessed with finding ...Read Review
Code Name Verity
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The first half of the story is told by ‘Verity’, who is being interrogated by the Gestapo. Writing is the small indulgence that ...Read Review
Into the Free
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Cantrell’s outstanding debut is no ordinary coming-of-age novel. For Millie Reynolds, daughter of a downtrodden, morphine-addicted mother and a wife-beating, half-Choctaw father, ...Read Review
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
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The timespan of this beautifully written and translated novella is less than an hour — the time it takes for Liese to walk from ...Read Review
The White Pearl
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Strap yourself in, cup of tea at the ready, and prepare for some excellent entertainment; you will struggle to tear yourself away from ...Read Review
The Bedlam Detective
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It’s not often I read a book in one sitting; with this novel, I didn’t leave my chair for so much ...Read Review
The Bleeding Land
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This is the first in a planned trilogy of novels set during the English Civil War, and this tale begins in 1642 with the ...Read Review
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
