Editors' Choice

A Most Dangerous Woman

By L.M. Jackson - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1852. Mrs Sarah Tanner, a woman with a dubious past, opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms in Leather Lane. On witnessing the brutal ...Read Review

The Journal of Dora Damage

By Belinda Starling - Published 2007

Genres:

Dora Damage has a name straight from Dickens, and in fact her tale would not be out of place in that author’s ...Read Review

The Theory Of Clouds

By Stéphane Audeguy (trans. Timothy Bent) - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

“All children become sad in the late afternoon, for they begin to comprehend the passage of time. The light starts to change. Soon ...Read Review

Island of Exiles

By I. J. Parker - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this latest entry to Parker’s mystery series set in 11th century Japan, Sugawara Akitada, a middle-ranking government administrator, is forced to ...Read Review

Away

By Amy Bloom - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

In July of 1924, Lillian Leyb stands in line with hundreds of other women, waiting to interview for a job as a seamstress that ...Read Review

The Last Summer Of The World

By Emily Mitchell - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Rarely does a book present the delicate balance of the relationship between a man and a woman as well as this one. Within ...Read Review

Voices from the Sea

By Evelyn Hood - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

In 1865 Eppie has lost her beloved husband to the sea—that eternal danger faced by the fisher folk of Portsoy. Her parents provide ...Read Review

Stormy Weather

By Paulette Jiles - Published 2007

Genres:

RomanceWestern

This is the second novel by Paulette Jiles, a poet and memoirist. Her first novel, Enemy Women, which won a Canadian fiction award, ...Read Review

Dark Hearts of Chicago

By Helen Rappaport - By William Horwood - Published 2007

Genres:

Thriller

Dark indeed. This 1893 version of Chicago is a thoroughly unpleasant place, violent, racist, sexist and corrupt, both politically and morally. Helen Rappaport and ...Read Review

The Dig

By John Preston - Published 2007

Genres:

Military

In the summer of 1939, as Britain prepares for war with air-raid drills and trench digging in Hyde Park, in the depths of rural ...Read Review

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