2008
Eleanor the Queen
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First published in the 1950s and set in 12th-century France and England, Eleanor the Queen follows Eleanor of Aquitaine from the days of ...Read Review
Vanessa and Virginia
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In London between the wars, artist Vanessa Bell and her sister, the author Virginia Woolf, members of the influential Bloomsbury set, indulged in ...Read Review
Last Nocturne
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A young artist on the verge of success throws himself out of his window, to be impaled on the iron fence below. An ...Read Review
Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano
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The author’s search for a second-hand harpsichord on which to play early music led her on a journey that will fascinate the ...Read Review
A Quiet Belief in Angels
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A Quiet Belief in Angels follows narrator Joseph Vaughan, an author, who recounts the story of his life, from his time as a ...Read Review
1066: The Healer
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The neat, clever conceit animating John Wright’s novel The Healer is a simple, persistent reminder to the complacency of modern-day readers, perhaps ...Read Review
Birth of a Warrior
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary
510 B.C. Ancient Sparta. At the end of the first book in the Spartan Warrior series, Lysander, the half-breed trainee warrior, defeats the ...Read Review
The Lady in Red
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When well-bred heiress Seymour Fleming married the urbane Isle of Wight landowner and politician Sir Richard Worsley, it seemed no different from many ...Read Review
The Promise
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This story is set in Newcastle in 1885 and centres around a newspaper investigation into child prostitution within the city. Henry Brookfield is a ...Read Review
Gladiatrix
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In the first century AD, a 19-year-old Spartan, Lysandra, is enslaved after being the sole survivor of a shipwreck. In Sparta, she was ...Read Review