Editors' Choice

The Lady Grace Mysteries : Feud

By Patricia Finney - Published 2005Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

  This is another from the fictional diaries of Lady Grace Cavendish, Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth and secret Lady Pursuivant. Carmina, ...Read Review

Intoxicated! A Novel of Money, Madness and the Invention of the World’s Favorite Soft Drink

By John Barlow - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

Yorkshire, 1869. En route from France by train, Isaac Brookes nearly kicks a bunch of smelly rags out the door of his compartment only ...Read Review

House of Orphans

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Set in Finland in 1901, House of Orphans tells the stories of Eeva and Lauri, childhood friends separated by death and politics. Eeva grows ...Read Review

The Pale Blue Eye

By Louis Bayard - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

‘April 19, 1831. In two or three hours… I’ll be dead.’ What an opening! Gus Landor is a New York City police constable living ...Read Review

The First Casualty

By Ben Elton - Published 2006

Genres:

In 1917 England was not only fighting the Great War in France but was also witnessing a period of industrial unrest at home. Socialism ...Read Review

The House of Scorta

By Laurent Gaudé - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Awarded France’s most prestigious literary prize, Le Prix Goncourt 2004, this novel has sold over 400,000 copies. After reading it, you will understand why. ...Read Review

The Book about Blanche and Marie

By Per Olov Enquist (trans. Tiina Nunnally) - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Set in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this quiet novel is a work of art. With every word, every ...Read Review

Cloth Girl

By Marilyn Heward Mills - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

In the mid-1930s, naïve bride Audrey Turton travels to Ghana to join her colonial officer husband. At the same time, fourteen-year-old ...Read Review

Gates of Paradise

By Beryl Kingston - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1800 the poet, William Blake, and his wife, Catherine, move from London to the tiny rural community of Felpham, in Sussex. There they ...Read Review

Suite Française

By Irène Némirovsky - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Suite Française, an unfinished five-part epic that boldly illustrates the effect of the WWII German occupation on the ordinary people of France, ...Read Review

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