Editors' Choice
The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare
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London 1613, and William Shakespeare returns from Stratford to the oppressive reign of King James. On visiting Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower, he ...Read Review
Matterhorn
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Historical novels of young men at war play a critical role in popular acceptance of this genre. First-time novelist Karl Marlantes’s lengthy ...Read Review
Island Beneath the Sea
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Isabel Allende is at the top of her game in Island Beneath the Sea, a seductive, sprawling historical novel set in Haiti and ...Read Review
The Doctor and the Diva
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This amazing debut novel, based on the lives of McDonnell’s son’s ancestors, begins in Boston in 1903, when the opera singer Erika ...Read Review
The Bells
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When I look at my copy of The Bells sitting in front of me, I cannot believe it lies there immobile and lifeless. ...Read Review
Glorious
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Easter Vanetta Bartlett, born in Waycross, Georgia, sees her sister raped and violated in 1910, an act that quickly drives her family to insanity ...Read Review
Daughters of the Witching Hill
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Inspired by the 1612 Pendle witch trials in Lancashire, England, Sharratt tells a dramatic story of love and treachery. Told from the viewpoint of ...Read Review
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
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Catherine de Medici came to the French court as a reluctant princess: young and naive, and yet somehow she knew her destiny was ...Read Review
Heresy
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The name Giordano Bruno is carved deep into the gravestone of Inquisition heretics. He was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600 for ...Read Review
The Bones of Avalon
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England 1560, and the young Queen Elizabeth is still settling into her new throne. Whilst trying to usher in a new time of post-Marian ...Read Review
