2003
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss
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“The Kaiser was chopping logs.” So begins and ends the arc of this fast-paced narrative which takes place in 1940 at Huis Doorn, the ...Read Review
Shadows in the Night
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This is the first in Jane Finnis’ Aurelia Marcella Mysteries, so we are introduced to the eponymous heroine who is the manager of ...Read Review
Requiem for a Lost Empire
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This novel spans three generations – from 1917, when the narrator’s grandfather fought for the Red Army, through World War II, when his father ...Read Review
The Minotaur’s Children
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The Minotaur’s Children draws the reader into a nightmare maze where nothing is as it seems. Upright Victorians live in deliberate ignorance ...Read Review
Anthropology of an American Girl
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Literature is riddled with coming-of-age stories. The drama of adolescence lends itself to gripping narrative – first love, first heartbreak, self-discovery. One of the ...Read Review
Prisoners
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Burt Zollo’s debut novel is set in Le Mans, France in 1945. It is the story of a 19-year-old Jewish American POW camp ...Read Review
The Murdered House
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This dense novel bears the weight of tragedy, from the shocking murder of a family in remote upper Provence, France in 1896 to the ...Read Review
Winston’s War: A Novel of Deception
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Following upon the success of Never Surrender, this is another of Michael Dobbs’s previously published novels centering on pivotal moments in the ...Read Review
Frenchman’s Creek
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Society in Restoration London frustrates and bores Lady Dona St. Columb. In an effort to escape, she takes her two children to ...Read Review
Honored
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How would Mary, mother of Jesus, remember the events surrounding his birth? In this understated novella, Mary shares her reminiscences with Luke, the ...Read Review