Editors' Choice
The Thief of Time
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John Boyne has written a quietly profound tale about a middle-aged man who, inexplicably, stops aging. Matthieu Zela, born in 1743, flees Paris with ...Read Review
Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II
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Having previously provided a fictional memoir of Sarah, first Duchess of Marlborough (Duchess, an Editors’ Choice), Scott brings to vivid life another of ...Read Review
All the Tea in China
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Isabella Goodrich is a singular woman. Raised by her uncle, an Oxford Dean, she is a swordswoman and scholar. Since both of these ...Read Review
The Court of the Air
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
The Land of Jackals is a warped echo of Britain during the early 19th century, and at its beating heart is the city ...Read Review
Peony in Love
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Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women over a hundred ...Read Review
The Lark’s Lament
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The Lark’s Lament is the sixth of Alan Gordon’s Fools’ Guild mysteries. Theophilus the Fool now shares the stage with his ...Read Review
Dispensation of Death
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Biographical FictionMilitaryMystery/Crime
1325: the reign of Edward II.England is in the grip of tyranny. Not so much from the reigning king, who though weak-willed is ...Read Review
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
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In this, journalist Vanora Bennett’s first novel, Meg Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More, springs brilliantly to life. Surrounded by a ...Read Review
The Russian Concubine
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Don’t judge this book by its cover. To look at The Russian Concubine, you might expect a steamy romance novel, but there ...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