Editors' Choice

Black Drop

By Leonora Nattrass - Published 2022

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London, 1793. Laurence Jago is a lowly government clerk, decoding messages and copying documents. He is answerable to George Aust, Permanent Under-Secretary to Lord ...Read Review

Lily: A Tale of Revenge

By Rose Tremain - Published 2021

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Born in 1850, Lily Mortimer is found as a just-delivered baby and is taken to Coram’s Foundling Hospital children’s home by a ...Read Review

A Train to Moscow

By Elena Gorokhova - Published 2022

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The Soviet world in the post-WWII era is a bleak existence for Russians. The Iron Curtain has cut them off from the rest ...Read Review

Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot

By Rebecca Rosenberg - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction

Champagne Widows tells the story of the famous winemaker Veuve Clicquot, born Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin. Barbe-Nicole inherits her grandmother’s extraordinary sense of smell, ...Read Review

From a Dark Horizon (A Gregor Reinhardt Novel)

By Luke McCallin - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

In the final months of World War I, a grisly crime at a secluded farmhouse sends young German officer Lt. Gregor Reinhardt to ...Read Review

The Prophet’s Wife: A Novel of an American Faith

By Libbie Grant - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

If you know as little as I do about the Mormon religion, this book will at times read like a fantasy novel. The ...Read Review

Traitor in the Ice

By K. J. MAITLAND - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

This is a country house murder mystery, and a very good one. The investigator, Daniel Pursglove, is a flawed genius with an interesting ...Read Review

Circus of Wonders

By Elizabeth Macneal - Published 2022

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Victorian England, 1860s. Nell’s already troubled young life is further ripped apart when her father sells her to Jasper Jupiter—the man ...Read Review

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

By Allison Pataki - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

This is an absolutely terrific novel. If you want to know more about the 20th century, it’s all here, from the founding ...Read Review

The Secret in the Wall (Silver Rush Mysteries, 8)

By Ann Parker - Published 2022

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Mystery/CrimeWestern

With an impressive command of the genre of historical fiction, Ann Parker tells the tale of Inez Stannert, who purchases an old house ...Read Review

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