2011
La Rochelle’s Road
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La Rochelle’s Road, an enthralling tale set on a wild seacoast in remote New Zealand, is an outstanding read that deserves more ...Read Review
Under the Hawthorn Tree
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This novel first appeared on the pseudonymous author’s website in 2007, sold millions of copies, has been filmed, and is now available in ...Read Review
In the Mind’s Eye
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In this novella set just after World War I, Caitlin, a newly graduated psychologist interning at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, grapples ...Read Review
Nanyang
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Stewart’s Nanyang is an immense narrative that begins with a pair of young Chinese siblings abducted by a Dutch raiding party but ...Read Review
By Loyalty Divided
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The English Civil War was a horrific time in history. Families were split apart by fighting and no more is this keenly felt ...Read Review
When the Jungle is Silent
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Jason is stationed in Penang, an island just off the Malaysian coast, in 1964. Young and rudderless, he finds a purpose when he meets ...Read Review
The Bootlace Boys
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This vividly realistic, tightly-paced and gripping novel draws on diaries and military records to convey the story of Ted Smith. The story begins ...Read Review
Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel in Documents
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The phenomenal story of Holocaust survivor Oswald Rufeisen is fictionalized in Ulitskaya’s Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Rufeisen was able to save the lives ...Read Review
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Cain might object to the theft of credit for his invention, but otherwise the title of this work sums things up rather nicely. ...Read Review
The Nine Day Queen
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This is much more the story of all three Grey sisters – Lady Jane, Lady Katherine and Lady Mary – than of the unfortunate Jane, ...Read Review