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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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While browsing the Oxford University Press archives, academic Sarah Ogilvie came across the hitherto unknown black notebook of James Murray. Murray was the ...Read Review
The Butterfly Collector
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1922 Sydney. Verity Binks wants to be a reporter like her father and grandfather, but with soldiers coming home from the Great War, she ...Read Review
Murder on the Pneumatic Railway
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Surgeon Samson Light is in the Clerkenwell House of Detention, awaiting trial for a crime he didn’t commit. A post office worker’...Read Review
The Ship’s Midwife
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The “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic in the mid-1800s are well-known. Numerous impoverished Irish emigrants died before reaching their destination, the ...Read Review
The Baker’s Sister
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Leeds, 1898. After three years of hard work, Meg Fairfax has finally saved enough money to buy her beloved bakery. Her fiancé Frankie is ...Read Review
Salt & Broom
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This is a fantasy romance version of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, Jane Eyre. The heroine is Jane Aire, a teacher at Lowood ...Read Review
Night Watch
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In April 1874, ConaLee accompanies her mother and the man she calls “Papa” to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the new-ish state of West ...Read Review
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
In White’s version of Victorian England, some people are born with violet eyes. These people can cut through the Veil, opening a ...Read Review
The Gentleman’s Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women)
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With The Gentleman’s Gambit, Evie Dunmore concludes her entertaining four-book series about a group of women fighting for suffrage rights in late 19...Read Review
Murder in the Mist (A Gaslight Mystery, 5)
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At Christmas in 1859, Charles Dickens’ country home of Gad’s Hill is full to bursting. Dickens, his wife and ten children, plus friends, ...Read Review