Literary
May We Feed the King
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This remarkable story, set in two eras, begins and ends in the present with a seven centuries-prior medieval in between. The modern setting ...Read Review
Questions 27 & 28
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In response to the December 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the detention of ...Read Review
The Daffodil Days
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This is an extraordinary novel. Extraordinary in its form: the story runs backwards. Extraordinary in its content: a meticulously researched fictional biography covering ...Read Review
The Treasure Seekers
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This second verse novel from Cathy Faulkner (Digging for Victory) takes place immediately after World War 1. The setting is the fictional village of ...Read Review
Feast
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In 1899, Minha, the mixed-race daughter of a prostitute and a sailor, stows away on a ship to France after her grandfather, her caregiver ...Read Review
Last Evenings with Teresa
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Juan Marsé’s exploration of class division in 1950s Barcelona, first published in 1966, has only just been translated into English, opening a wider ...Read Review
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves
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The novel opens in 1924 and follows Günter Zeitz, an eager student of psychoanalysis. Arriving in Vienna from Coblenz, he approaches Sigmund Freud ...Read Review
Daughter of the Titanic
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Cauchi’s fictional biography introduces Helen Melville (Mel) Russell Cooke in 1973, when researcher, Dr Catherine Haynes, having come across a 1959 David Rolt portrait, ...Read Review
The Repentants
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Scotland, 1790, and Florrie Aitken—a wealthy but emotionally neglected housewife—strides out, determined to experience ‘pure bliss’. Unfortunately, just at the moment of ...Read Review
My Father’s Orchards
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Few historical novels have touched on the long trauma of the Romanian people, from the violent aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917, to ...Read Review
