Editors' Choice

The Twice Born

By Pauline Gedge - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

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

By Sadie Jones - Published 2008

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

  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

By Pamela Binnings Ewen - Published 2008

Genres:

InspirationalSaga

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

By Ursula Le Guin - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

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

By Ace Atkins - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Carol Birch - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

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

By Bryce Courtenay - Published 2007

Genres:

Adventure

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

By Lawrence Goldstone - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

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

By Annie Dillard - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

  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

By Christie Dickason - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeRomance

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

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