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Whiskey When We’re Dry
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In 1885, seventeen-year-old Jesse Harney becomes orphaned and lives alone on her family’s homestead. She has a brother, Noah, five years her senior, ...Read Review
Melmoth
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Beware the reader delving into the wondrous world of Sarah Perry’s Melmoth without the time to finish this breathtaking novel in one ...Read Review
Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Japanese fiction is replete with a searing obsession with darkness and beauty, which is exemplified in David Peace’s latest novel. It is ...Read Review
Call of the Curlew (UK) / The Orphan of Salt Winds (US)
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December 1939, and Virginia, an orphan aged 10, is adopted by Clem & Lorna Wrathmell. She is taken to their large house, Salt Winds, on ...Read Review
The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock)
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The Hollow of Fear is the third in Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series and honestly, they just keep getting better and better. In ...Read Review
The Silence of the Girls
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In the ninth year of the siege of Troy, the Greek hero Achilles raids the town of Lyrnessus, and in one day Queen ...Read Review
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
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Based on a little-known piece of history, this book tells the story of Cathy Williams, the only woman to ever serve with the ...Read Review
The Girl They Left Behind
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Bucharest, Romania, 1941. King Carol II has abdicated, and General Antonescu’s Legionnaires are massacring Jews or disappearing them in the night. So when ...Read Review
The Walrus Mutterer (The Stone Stories)
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Set in 320 BC, The Walrus Mutterer is a gripping, haunting and, at times, visceral novel. Rian, a young apprentice healer, is wrenched from ...Read Review
Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley
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In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again ...Read Review
