Great Depression
Darjeeling Inheritance (The Colonials)
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In 1930, Charlotte Lawrence is finally done with boarding school in England and returns home to India and her family’s tea plantation. Her ...Read Review
Last Days in Cleaver Square
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This is a novel of the Spanish Civil War, or more accurately, the memories of the traumatic times that Francis McNulty ponders on. ...Read Review
A Darker Reality: An Elena Standish Novel
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Third in the Elena Standish Series, A Darker Reality opens in the spring of 1934, as Elena, an M16 agent, has made the long ...Read Review
Snow Country
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This is a sequel to Faulks’s 2005 novel Human Traces. Given that there has been a 16-year hiatus between the two books, it ...Read Review
Sunday’s Orphan
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The off-key whistling of an ominous “Dixie” refrain is the first thing that alerts Promise Crawford to the presence of Daffron Mears, a ...Read Review
A Bright Young Thing
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It’s 1931. The Great Depression has begun. In London, a young socialite named Astra Davies finds herself in a terrible jam. Astra’s ...Read Review
Murder at Mallowan Hall (A Phyllida Bright Mystery)
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There’s never been an epigraph truer to a novel’s spirit than the one C. M. Gleason, writing as Colleen Cambridge, chose ...Read Review
On Sugar Hill (The Georgia Magnolias)
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1929. The stock market has crashed, and Vaudeville is dying. Cora is summed home from New York to Georgia because her father, the Senator, ...Read Review
God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
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Rhys Bowen continues the Royal Spyness mystery series with God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen, set on the fringe of the royal Sandringham Estate ...Read Review
The Shade Tree
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In the 1930s, Ellie and Mavis Turner live on their father’s failing Florida orange grove. Ellie is head-turningly beautiful, her father’s ...Read Review
