Editors' Choice

Set the Stars Alight

By Amanda Dykes - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

Set the Stars Alight is a beautiful, intricately woven story of friendship. In London in 2000, Lucy and Dash meet as children and grow ...Read Review

Hamnet

By Maggie O'Farrell - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is the passionate love story of a glove-maker’s son and Agnes, a wise-woman. It is the tale of an absentee father, ...Read Review

A Single Swallow

By Zhang Ling - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

On the day the Japanese emperor announces his nation’s surrender to the Allied forces, three quite different men, in the unbridled exaltation ...Read Review

The Pull of the Stars

By Emma Donoghue - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

This novel is set in Dublin during the Halloween of 1918. Nurse Julia Power finds herself solely in charge of a temporary ward in ...Read Review

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle

By Neil Blackmore - Published 2020

Genres:

London 1763, and brothers Edgar and Benjamin Bowen are to embark upon The Grand Tour to mainland Europe. They are close in age, around ...Read Review

Dawn Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome (The Theodosian Women)

By Faith L. Justice - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 404 AD in Constantinople’s imperial palace, Emperor Arcadius of the Eastern Roman Empire pulls his five-year-old daughter, Pulcheria, into her dead mother’...Read Review

A Wild Winter Swan: A Novel

By Gregory Maguire - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Fifteen-year-old Laura is trying to spin a fairytale. The protagonist, herself, is a neglected orphan living in a cold garret—the attic apartment ...Read Review

The Truth About Dukes (Rogues to Riches, 5)

By Grace Burrowes - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

Robert, Duke of Rothhaven, is in a fragile state. No surprise, really, considering his horrific ‘treatment’ as a child in a hospital for ...Read Review

Payback: A Novel

By Mary Gordon - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Author/memoirist Gordon’s award-winning fiction often focuses on generational tensions and damage, and particularly the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters. She ...Read Review

The Revolt

By Clara Dupont-Monod - By Ruth Diver (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Listen to the inner voices of Richard the Lionheart and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, resounding down the centuries, courtesy of the powerful ...Read Review

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