2013
The Flowers of the Field
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Originally published in the early 1980s, The Flowers of the Field is the first part of Sarah Harrison’s Flower Trilogy which begins ...Read Review
Fate and Fair Winds
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A familiar star-crossed-lovers twist informs the basic plot of Dory Codington’s historical romance Fate & Fair Winds: John FitzSimmon, a major in ...Read Review
Bowman of Crecy
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1346, the Welsh marches. Young Hugh Fletcher lives with a band of outlaws. After a run in with the tyrannical Sir Henry Mortimer of ...Read Review
On the Road to Damascus
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Connolly follows up his excellent debut The Good Thief with this sequel, which moves forward the story set in first century Galilee. The ...Read Review
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony
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Siege and Symphony is an unusual war history. It is a densely packed and meticulously researched account of Germany’s 900-day siege of ...Read Review
Pyotr Ilyich
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The tempestuous and controversial life and career of great Russian composer Tchaikovsky is the subject of Dalton’s long and ambitious new novel, ...Read Review
Consult the Oracle: A Victorian Guide to Folklore and Fortune Telling
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This handy little compendium of Victorian-era superstitions and folklore is a fun resource if you need research for this time period, or if ...Read Review
Anathema
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AdventureHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime
When a body washes up on Nantucket’s Eel Point Beach in 1856, the local doctor requests assistance from Harvard medical student Balthazar Andrews ...Read Review
The Woman Before Wallis
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King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson are familiar, but Wallis was not the first scandal in Edward’s life. Marguerite Alibert, a well-known ...Read Review
The Winship Family: Book One (Father and Son)
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McCarthy’s trilogy spans virtually the entire course of the Victorian British empire, as young Seamus Tobin is adopted into the wealthy and ...Read Review
