Literary
The Homecoming
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This latest novel from the bestselling Dutch author is a long, lyrical meditation on mourning and identity. Elizabeth Batts Cook is the wife ...Read Review
The Lioness
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1964. Hollywood movie star and American sweetheart Katie Barstow decides to take a small group of friends and family with her and her new ...Read Review
This Fierce Blood
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Three generations of women are profiled in three different time periods, and three different places in the United States. They all have one ...Read Review
The Porcelain Doll
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1991. Rosie is a young doctoral student at Oxford. Until the age of eleven, she was Raisa, and lived in Moscow with her Russian ...Read Review
A Sin of Omission
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A heart-wrenching story elevated through luminous writing, Marguerite Poland’s fictional tribute to a historical Black South African missionary was shortlisted for the 2020 ...Read Review
Things Past Telling
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Momma Grace could be as old as 112; no one knows her real age for sure, but there is no question that she has ...Read Review
The Vow: A Requiem for the Fifties
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The Vow is a complex and multi-layered novel about architect Kamil Modráček, who confronts the harsh reality of Gottwald’s Stalinist regime ...Read Review
A Good Year
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1925, rural Cyprus. This book tells of Loukas and his wife Despo, married only a year and expecting their first child—please God a ...Read Review
Incomparable World (Black Britain: Writing Back, 1)
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First published by Quartet in 1996, this is a rollicking account of Black lives in London and Middlesex during a specific period in the ...Read Review
Devotion
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Devotion starts as a beautifully written historical novel, set in Prussia in the 1830s. Hanne is an outsider to her close-knit, highly religious ...Read Review