2012

Paradise Misplaced

By Sylvia Montgomery Shaw - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

As the son of the wealthiest man in Mexico, Captain Benjamín Nyman can have it all. And, in the days leading up ...Read Review

Death of an Empire

By M.K. Hume - Published 2012Published 2013

Genres:

Adventure

This is the second instalment in M.K. Hume’s Merlin Trilogy. Keen to uncover his father’s identity, but also driven by ...Read Review

Pure

By Andrew Miller - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

Pure is a novel about the clearance of the cemetery at Les Innocents in Paris in 1785 and the transportation of the human remains ...Read Review

Beyond the Ties of Blood

By Florencia Mallon - Published 2012

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Being too warm is a small price to pay for Boston academic Eugenia Aldunate. She wears long sleeves at all times, to preclude ...Read Review

Sugar Island

By Sanjida O’Connell - Published 2012

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Sugar Island is inspired by the life of Fanny Kemble – actress, author and anti-slavery activist – and is set in the American South on ...Read Review

The Fever Tree

By Jennifer McVeigh - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

1878. Orphaned by the death of her father, Frances Irvine faces a stark choice. Spurned by her mother’s grand relatives and left penniless ...Read Review

The Pleasures of Men

By Kate Williams - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The year is 1840, and London is in the grip of economic depression. There are riots in the streets, and a serial killer is ...Read Review

The Stolen Bride

By Tony Hays - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When Malgwyn accompanies King Arthur to help settle a dispute in Doged’s troubled lands, they arrive to find more than ambitious nobles ...Read Review

Into the Free

By Julie Cantrell - Published 2012

Genres:

Inspirational

Cantrell’s outstanding debut is no ordinary coming-of-age novel. For Millie Reynolds, daughter of a downtrodden, morphine-addicted mother and a wife-beating, half-Choctaw father, ...Read Review

A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death that Changed the British Monarchy

By Helen Rappaport - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

The image of Queen Victoria as a dour, gloomy widow in black pervades popular culture, overshadowing the vivacious young queen recently brought back ...Read Review