Literary
W.: A Novel
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W. is based on the 1821 true crime story of Johann Christian Woyzeck of Leipzig, who murdered his lover in a jealous rage and ...Read Review
The Chosen
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November 1912. On a cold, wet autumnal morning, Thomas Hardy’s wife Emma dies suddenly of heart failure. With both born in 1840, and hence ...Read Review
Dr. B.
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Immanuel is standing in the first-floor corridor of Kronoberg Prison in Stockholm, watching Gottfried Fischer enter. Fischer is the publisher who hired Immanuel ...Read Review
Voices in the Dead House (The American Novels)
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The ninth installment in Lock’s The American Novels series brings together literary giants Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. It is 1863, and ...Read Review
Dark Earth
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AD 500, and sisters Isla and Blue sit on an island in the Thames, watching the tide creep up on the Ghost City, formerly ...Read Review
Heritage
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Heritage presents the fictional lives of intertwined families across four generations whose patriarchs came to Chile from Europe. In 1873, Monsieur Lonsonier, a French ...Read Review
Son of Svea: A Tale of the People’s Home
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This Swedish family saga follows the life of Ragnar Johansson, born in 1932 of poor parents. From young adulthood, Ragnar embraces his country’s ...Read Review
Foxhunt
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In Paris for the first time in 1949, Canadian Milne Lowell is pleased to meet old friends and make new acquaintances at the International ...Read Review
Horse: A Novel
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Brooks succeeds gloriously at creating a love letter to thoroughbred horses, racing, and the beauties of antebellum Kentucky, and passably well at creating ...Read Review
Daughters of the Deer
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Canadian writer Daniel’s poignant historical novel, her adult fiction debut, reveals important truths about Indigenous women’s lives. The daughters of the ...Read Review