Editors' Choice

The Ruby in Her Navel

By Barry Unsworth - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureSaga

Set during the brief but glittering rule of the Norman kings, this beautifully written novel opens in Palermo where Arab, Christian and Jew ...Read Review

The Scarlet Lion

By Elizabeth Chadwick - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This novel is a sequel to The Greatest Knight which told the early story of William Marshal, although any reader can, as I ...Read Review

The Rising Tide

By Jeff Shaara - Published 2006

Genres:

Military

After an introduction, which whisks the reader through the events leading up World War II and into the early years of the war, ...Read Review

Inés of My Soul

By Isabel Allende - By Margaret Sayers Peden - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Doña Inés Suárez tells the epic story of her life and the conquest of Chile in this fictional biography. Iné...Read Review

The Book Thief

By Marcus Zusak - Published 2006 (US)Published 2007 (UK)

Genres:

Literary

1939, Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger, the daughter of a communist, is the eponymous Book Thief, and her story is told by Death. Even before ...Read Review

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By Maggie O'Farrell - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Iris Lockhart is a stubbornly independent young woman in modern Edinburgh. Her only real connections with the past are Kitty, her Alzheimer’s-afflicted ...Read Review

The Rebel Heart

By Martin Stephen - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

This is the fourth outing for Stephen’s charismatic anti-hero Sir Henry Gresham. It is 1598, and Elizabeth I is getting old. Her health ...Read Review

Gentlemen In Question

By Melinda Hammond - Published 2006

Genres:

Romance

From the moment Madeleine Sedgewick waits on the dockside at the busy port of Rye for the arrival of her French cousin, Camille, ...Read Review

Dangerous Pursuits

By Alanna Knight - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The second book in the Rose McQuinn mystery series is a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the world of Edinburgh’s first intrepid female ...Read Review

Symphony

By Jude Morgan - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

This stunning novel illuminates the passionate and stormy union of great Romantic composer, Hector Berlioz, and Anglo-Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, his muse, who ...Read Review

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