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The Romanov Empress
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This gorgeous, glorious, haunting book vividly imagines the inner life of Dagmar of Denmark, wife to the Russian tsar Alexander III and mother ...Read Review
The Ghost Keeper
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You would think that a story about taking care of the dead would be creepy, but nothing could be further from the truth ...Read Review
Smile of the Wolf
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Tim Leach’s previous novel, The Last King of Lydia, was set in an opulent, sunlit Mediterranean city-state in classical antiquity. Nothing could ...Read Review
Warlight
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The title of this dreamlike novel refers to the tiny, discreet points of London street illumination used during the WWII blackouts, which were ...Read Review
The Girl in the Tower
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As a highborn girl in 14th-century Russia, Vasilisa Petrovna should be leading a sheltered and pious life, waiting for a good marriage – like ...Read Review
The Air You Breathe
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A soaring fusion of emotion, intense drama, and the compelling rhythms of Brazilian music, The Air You Breathe belongs to the special category ...Read Review
Book of Colours
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In the year 1320, in anticipation of a major family inheritance, Lady Mathilda commissions a book of hours: an exquisite book, to raise the ...Read Review
The Stranger
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Everyone living in Penhallow Hall in the summer of 1940 has a secret. There is the autocratic invalid Mrs Fox; her anxious, downtrodden daughter ...Read Review
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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In the style of a first-person memoir, this is actually a fictionalized riff by the author upon the eventful life of an actual ...Read Review
Apricots and Wolfsbane
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There aren’t many opportunities for educated women in Tudor England outside of the convent or royal court, but twenty-something Lavinia Maude carves ...Read Review
