2005 (US)

One Night of Scandal

By Nicola Cornick - Published 2004 (UK)Published 2005 (US)

Genres:

Romance

Widow Deborah Stratton needs a temporary fiancé to keep her father from forcing her to return home or marrying her to her cousin. ...Read Review

Flashman on the March

By George MacDonald Fraser - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Adventure

The impressionable (reprehensible?) Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.I.E. (none of them deserved) rides again to the ...Read Review

White Stone Day

By John MacLachlan Gray - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in gritty Victorian London in 1858, Gray’s second book follows A Fiend in Human, his first novel which, likewise, was filled with ...Read Review

The Third Translation

By Matt Bondurant - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Inspired by an Egyptian antiquity in the British Museum, Matt Bondurant completed this book while working there. Walter Rothschild, an American Egyptologist, is ...Read Review

The Painted Drum

By Louise Erdrich - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

EpicLiterary

It took some sixteen years for Louise Erdrich to complete The Painted Drum, a masterwork of deeply colored, exquisitely drawn life scenes. The ...Read Review

The People’s Act of Love

By James Meek - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Epic

The People’s Act of Love is set in the isolated village of Yazyk, Siberia, in 1919, where a company of Czech soldiers, stranded ...Read Review

Wordsworth, A Life

By Juliet Barker - Published 2001 (UK)Published 2005 (US)

Genres:

Nonfiction

The author, well known for her acclaimed work The Brontës, has skillfully interwoven a wealth of published and unpublished material to create ...Read Review

The Foretelling

By Alice Hoffm - By Alice Hoffman - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The well-known novelist sets her story for young adults in an undefined ancient time, when the Amazon warriors are rulers of their part ...Read Review