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Burnt Shadows
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Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is to marry walk into infinity ...Read Review
Vienna Triangle
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Vienna Triangle is not a mathematical puzzle but a complex human one. The novel opens in 1968 with Helene Deutsch, the first female ...Read Review
Backtracked
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In Backtracked the author makes use of the popularity of time travel in fiction to drive home lessons for everyone on individual worth ...Read Review
Searching for Tamsen Donner
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In 1846 Tamsen Donner and her family left Springfield, Illinois, in search of a new life in California. In 1977 Gabrielle Burton and her family ...Read Review
The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London’s Most Notorious Prison
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Forget Alcatraz, the Bastille, or the Black Hole of Calcutta: the most notorious prison in history was surely Newgate. For over a century ...Read Review
A Voyage Long and Strange
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This is a travelogue rather than a history book, written by a journalist, not an historian. The Voyage Long and Strange is a ...Read Review
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
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This is not a history of the English language, despite the subtitle. There is little about grammar and syntax and nothing at all ...Read Review
Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty
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Twenty years ago, journalist Michael Karpin began to write the life story of a successful Brazilian businessman who was a Holocaust survivor. He ...Read Review
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Queens and Power is a collection of academic essays dealing with a variety of queens consort and queens regnant, mostly from the early ...Read Review
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
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This is a story that’s easy to lose yourself in. It alternates between the early 1990s, when Connie Goodwin is working on ...Read Review
