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Alec
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William di Canzio retells the ending of E. M. Forster’s novel Maurice from working-class Alec Scudder’s perspective, then carries forward the ...Read Review
Mazie
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Seventeen-year-old Mazie has had one big dream for as long as she can remember: To make it on Broadway as a singer and ...Read Review
The Castilians
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Scotland, 1546, and religious tensions are rife, further fomented by the political divisions related to Scotland’s relationship with England. In St Andrews, Cardinal ...Read Review
Shallow Waters
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This epic incorporates the Yoruba sea goddess Yemaya (also known as the Mother of Fishes and Mother of Africa), with the Middle Passage ...Read Review
Nile Cat
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In December 1871, 14-year-old twins Rose and Lily accompany their mother and Egyptologist father to Egypt. After Rose is given a small cat statue, ...Read Review
Late City
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When I heard that Robert Olen Butler had come out with a new historical novel, I was expecting a well-written, tightly plotted thriller ...Read Review
Mrs England
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It’s 1904, and Ruby May, a recently graduated nanny, moves to a new post in Yorkshire. All seems well at first: Mr and ...Read Review
Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons (Skelton’s Guides, 1)
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Birmingham, 1928. A funeral is halted thanks to an accusation that the deceased has been poisoned. His widow is arrested for murder. The self-deprecating ...Read Review
City of Dark Corners
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1933: Eugene Hammons departed the Phoenix police force under a dark cloud. Now he searches for missing persons as a P.I. One night ...Read Review
Nightshade (Jem Flockhart)
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London 1851. This latest glimpse into the fascinating world of Jem Flockhart, esteemed apothecary and expert in poisons and their effects, finds her redesigning ...Read Review
