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Multi-Period

The Aviary Gate

By Katie Hickman - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

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Oxford researcher Elizabeth Staveley is intrigued to discover an ancient fragment stuck in a book. The fragment tells of a young Englishwoman in ...Read Review

Agamemnon’s Daughter

By David Bellos (trans.) - By Ismail Kadare - Published 2007 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

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Literary Short Stories

Tyranny is the theme of this absorbing novella and two short stories. Written by Albania’s best known novelist, who experienced totalitarianism firsthand, ...Read Review

The Crystal Skull

By Manda Scott - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

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Thriller

A formulaic thriller made palatable by good writing, The Crystal Skull follows newlywed Cambridge scholar Stella Cody as she struggles to unravel the ...Read Review

The Gargoyle

By Andrew Davidson - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

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Literary

If the first scene of this debut novel doesn’t grab you by the throat, then no opening scene ever will. In The ...Read Review

The Penguin Book of Ghosts

By Jacqueline Simpson - By Jennifer Westwood - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

The study of history and its less serious but much prettier sister, the creation of historical fiction, is on one level always a ...Read Review

Royal Affairs

By Leslie Carroll - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

In the foreword to Royal Affairs, Leslie Carroll (who writes biographical historical fiction under the pen name Amanda Elyot) describes our ongoing fascination ...Read Review

Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945

By Richard Holmes - Published 2008

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Military Nonfiction

This is the latest paperback edition of a book originally published in 1992, and which neatly combines both guidebook and military history. Professor Holmes ...Read Review

Earls of Paradise

By Adam Nicolson - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

This book explores the vision of Arcadia told through the life of a place and its inhabitants. The place is Wilton, in Wiltshire, ...Read Review

The Dragon’s Trail: The Biography of Raphael’s Masterpiece

By Joanna Pitman - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

St. George and the Dragon was painted by the young, talented Raphael for the Duke of Urbino in 1504; the commission catapulted Raphael into ...Read Review

Sarah’s Key

By Tatiana de Rosnay - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

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Paris, 1942: ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski locks her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard to keep him safe when the French police come to arrest ...Read Review