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The Twice Born
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After tackling the revolt against the Hyksos in her superb Lord of the Two Lands trilogy, Pauline Gedge returns in excellent form with ...Read Review
The Outcast
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Set in a middle-class commuter town in southern England in the late 1940s and 1950s, this is a highly accomplished first novel. ...Read Review
The Moon in the Mango Tree
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Barbara Perkins adores opera. She is a talented singer. When her chance finally comes to work with the Chicago Opera, she finds her ...Read Review
Lavinia
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I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world and ...Read Review
Wicked City
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In 1954, Phenix City on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River was often compared to Sodom and Gomorrah. Situated on the Georgia border, ...Read Review
Scapegallows
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A ‘scapegallows’ is one who deserves and has narrowly escaped hanging. One such is Margaret Catchpole, born in Suffolk, who lived a double ...Read Review
Whitethorn
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Do not be misled by the blurb on the back cover of Bryce Courtenay’s new novel. The Second World War does indeed ...Read Review
The Anatomy of Deception
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Ephraim Carroll is a young physician in late 19th-century Philadelphia who counts himself lucky to be in the orbit of one of the ...Read Review
The Maytrees
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The novel opens in Provincetown, Massachusetts, just after the Second World War. Toby Maytree, a thirty-year-old poet and part-time house-mover, meets Lou ...Read Review
The Principessa
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We first met the Firemaster, Francis Quoynt, embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot in the pages of The Firemaster’s Mistress. As this new ...Read Review
