Literary
What the Body Remembers
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Set against the rich backdrop of India during the Raj, sweeping across time and space, this is a wonderful story in all senses ...Read Review
The Disastrous Mrs.Weldon
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The subject of this unusual biography was born Georgina Thomas, daughter of a delusional, cruel, and pretentious Briton who later assumed the genealogically ...Read Review
The Inventory
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Less a unified story than a collection of glimpses into the lives of Germans and Jews before and during WWII, The Inventory deals ...Read Review
Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works
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This is Anne Hathaway’s story, written years after her husband has died. Her daughter Susanna has given her a beautiful book of ...Read Review
Frida
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Frida recounts the major points of artist Frida Kahlo’s life. These include her childhood bout with polio, her education, the tragic bus ...Read Review
These Granite Islands
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It’s 1999 and Isobel Howard is 99 years old. She knows she is dying, and she is taking one last look back at the ...Read Review
The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes
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A thought-provoking tour of America and Europe from the U.S. Civil War to the 1920s, Christopher Bram’s latest novel is a ...Read Review
The Late Mr Shakespeare
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In this fictional biography of The Bard we meet Pickleherring, an aged actor writing about the life of his former employer and friend. ...Read Review
Artemisia
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This extraordinary novel is a must read for anyone remotely interested in Baroque Italy, art, or painter Artemisia Gentileschi. I have very ...Read Review
Blind Assassin 1ST Edition Us
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Any review of Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin as a historical novel must confront Atwood’s received status as a major ‘mainstream’ ...Read Review
