Jazz Age
Jungle of Ashes
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1928, Fordlandia, Amazonia, Brazil. One evening, seventeen-year-old Joanna, a keen botanist, sets out alone from the American camp, without a flashlight, to explore the ...Read Review
A Fortune of Sand
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One expects some level of eccentricity from the ultra-wealthy, yet Marjorie Lennox’s family sits in a class by itself. In 1927, at their ...Read Review
A Harlem Wedding
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My favorite historical fiction is the kind that breathes life into a revered figure from the past by telling the story of someone ...Read Review
The Lusitania Code: A Lady Butterschloss Mystery
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In this meticulously researched political thriller, Lady Emmeline “Foxy” Butterschloss is drawn out of her comfortable retirement in the country when confidential documents ...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
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
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Gilmore’s dual-timeline gothic horror weaves the author’s rich ancestral history through narratives set in the rue Daru colony of aristos and é...Read Review
Spring Melt
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This courtroom drama takes place in the 1920s Adirondack town of Saranac Lake, center of logging and hiking and a refuge for wealthy ...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 Moonlight Runner
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During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922), the people of Ireland lived precariously. Although two hundred thousand Irishmen had fought in WWI, Ireland ...Read Review
The Chambermaid’s Key
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Graham continues illuminating fascinating facets of Canadian history, upping the ante plotting-wise with her new dual-timeline novel centering on a storied Toronto landmark. ...Read Review
