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A Golden Age
Tahmina Anam, the author of this first novel, begins powerfully: “Dear Husband, I lost our children today.” The voice…
Skylark Farm
Editors' choice
Arslan’s luminous debut novel tells the unbearable story of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ethnic Armenian Yerwant Arslanian…
The Lazarus Project
History and literary narrative are inextricably interwoven in MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Hemon’s latest work. Two stories are told: one…
The Man Who Killed Shakespeare
In 1932, Shakespeare, New Mexico, is barely surviving the Depression and quietly, steadily slipping downhill. Lett Halsey has inherited…
Birds in the Spring
It is 1920 and women are no longer prepared to take a back seat in business. Fiona MacDowell is…
The Winter of the World
Love, betrayal, and a terrible debt to pay are the themes of The Winter of the World, the debut…
Shelter From the Storm
This final instalment of Jennie Walters’ Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy tells the story of Isobel, the daughter of Grace from…
Silk and Steel
This novel is set in the mid-19th century, in a fictional South Riding, which is quite clearly, South Yorkshire, though…
A Kingdom for the Brave
A Kingdom for the Brave is the story of a disparate group of people struggling for survival in the early…
Hallam’s War
The American Civil War looms and then bursts into flame during this debut novel. Initially set on the West Tennessee…
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