Editors' Choice
The Elixir of Death
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AD 1195. ‘Crowner John’ – otherwise the splendidly-named Sir John de Wolfe, black-haired and frequently bad tempered – is confronted by an abandoned ship and ...Read Review
The Girl from Charnelle
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It is New Year’s Eve, 1959. Almost 16-year-old Laura Tate, her father, and her three brothers have been trying to make a ...Read Review
White Ghost Girls
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Some “literary” novels contain rich, descriptive language that might be enjoyable to read but has no real bearing on the story they ...Read Review
Death and the Cornish Fiddler
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When newly widowed John Rawlings and his daughter Rose are invited to accompany Elizabeth di Lorenzi to Helstone for the annual Floral (...Read Review
Abundance
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The author of the bestselling Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund takes on a true historical figure this time, in Abundance, an ...Read Review
The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny
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In this sequel to the gripping The Rose of York: Love and War, Worth does a beautiful, and succinct, job of retelling the ...Read Review
The Man Who Was Loved
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There’s something about Venice that defies conventional description and so does this enigmatic novel. Not so much a novel, it’s more ...Read Review
Purity of Blood
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Diego Alatriste survives in the Spain of 1623 by taking commissions as a sword for hire while maintaining a firm sense of honor. This ...Read Review
The Widow’s War
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As a whaler’s wife living on Cape Cod in 1761, Lyddie Berry always knew the dangers. One windy January afternoon, when her cousins ...Read Review
Götz and Meyer
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It is rare that a slim book can wield such emotional impact, but Götz and Meyer is small in page-length alone; the ...Read Review
