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The Hawk
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Smalley has been hailed as the heir to those great writers of naval historical fiction, Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester. I ...Read Review
Cézanne’s Quarry
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The city of Aix-en-Provence in southern France recently celebrated the centennial of the death of Paul Cézanne, an artist often called the ...Read Review
Skeletons at the Feast
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Once in a while a novel comes along that crawls into your soul from the first page and won’t let go, even ...Read Review
The Painter from Shanghai
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At fourteen, the future Pan Yuliang is sold into prostitution by her opium-addicted uncle. Yuliang determines to run away, but disobedient “flowers” are ...Read Review
The Sword of Revenge
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This is the second of a trilogy set in the Roman Republic during the period before Julius Caesar. The first part, Pillars of ...Read Review
Skylark Farm
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Arslan’s luminous debut novel tells the unbearable story of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ethnic Armenian Yerwant Arslanian has left his ...Read Review
The Last Bear
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AdventureHistorical FantasyRomance
Brigid is the last in a long line of medicine women; she lives alone in the forest since she has been banished from ...Read Review
The Romanov Bride
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
In the first two decades of the 20th century, two worlds collide in Russia. The fall of the Romanovs and the massacre ...Read Review
Sun of Silver, Moon of Gold
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In 1837, following her father’s death, Flora Scott is not surprised when her family decides to send her to the New World to ...Read Review
Michaelmas Tribute
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The Brehon Judge, Mara, returns in this second historical murder mystery set in the Burren in north-west Ireland. It is 1509 and people are ...Read Review
