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A Most Dangerous Woman
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
