Editors' Choice

Elegy to Murder: A Medieval Mystery

By Priscilla Royal - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

Elegy to Murder is the latest medieval mystery featuring Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas. Royal succeeds in creating sympathy for her characters and ...Read Review

Blasted Things

By Lesley Glaister - Published 2020

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1917, and Clementine Armstrong (Clem) is a VAD nurse on the Western Front. She volunteered to work on the frontline against the explicit wishes ...Read Review

War Lord (Saxon Tales 13)

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2020

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AdventureMilitary

This is the (probable) conclusion to The Last Kingdom series, which follows the adventures of Uhtred, the lord of Bebbanburg (Bamburgh), during the ...Read Review

The Dressmaker of Paris

By Georgia Kaufman - Published 2021

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This is not my kind of book, the life story of a seamstress who becomes the millionaire owner of a fashion chain. Yet ...Read Review

I’m Staying Here

By Marco Balzano -

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Literary

This fascinating story set in northern Italy, on the Austrian border, begins in 1923 and ends in 1950. It’s told in first-person narrative as ...Read Review

Those Who Are Saved

By Alexis Landau - Published 2021

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Wealthy, educated, and attractive Vera, the heroine of Alexis Landau’s exquisite World War II novel, belongs to the select group of Russian é...Read Review

Censorettes

By Elizabeth Frank - Published 2020

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During WWII on Bermuda, Lucy Barrett, gifted in languages, is a Censorette, part of a branch of British Intelligence stationed on the island ...Read Review

Inside the Beautiful Inside

By Emily Bullock - Published 2020

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Biographical FictionLiterary

An etching by George Arnaud from 1814 depicts a middle-aged man held chained to a stake with an iron ring around his neck, another ...Read Review

The Lonely Wife

By Val Wood - Published 2020

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England, 1850. Rich thirty-something banker Charles Dawley will be vastly wealthier once he has fathered a son, thereby fulfilling the terms of his Uncle ...Read Review

Vera

By Carol Edgarian - Published 2021

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It’s no spoiler to reveal that the defining event of this lovely, constantly surprising novel is the great San Francisco earthquake and ...Read Review

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