2014
Beyond the Horizons
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The Civil War is raging in the West. Mace Alexander of Tennessee, along with his three friends, is faced with fighting the Union ...Read Review
American Baroque
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In the summer of 1835, three strangers saunter into Mohawk, Indiana: an urchin, a scruffy schoolteacher and a scruffier, cheerfully inebriated preacher dressed in ...Read Review
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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This novel is a silly romp through the Australian Museum collection in 1932. Archie Meeks returns home to his fiancée, Beatrice, after five ...Read Review
Kingdom of Rebels
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The Wars of the Roses has been well represented in Historical Fiction, so it is pleasant to find a story in which the ...Read Review
The Night Julius Caesar Invented Champagne
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“Each time you enjoy a glass of wine made of grapes from any of the now hundreds of thousands of vineyards, you participate ...Read Review
A Singular Captain
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In 1518, the young king of Castile, Carlos V, decided to finance a five-ship expedition led by famous Portuguese navigator and sea-captain, Ferdinand Magellan. ...Read Review
The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez
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This is a Tudor book with a difference. The main focus is on a young Portuguese immigrant, Christoval, known as Kit, a skilled ...Read Review
Spilt Milk
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The Marsh sisters, Nellie and Vivian, are inseparable until the great flood of 1913 brings a charismatic but unreliable stranger to their isolated cottage ...Read Review
Us Conductors
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Sean Michaels’ debut novel has already won Canada’s 2014 Scotiabank Giller prize and deservedly so. It is a fictionalised account of the life ...Read Review
The House at Zaronza
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This emotionally powerful novel is set on Corsica, and the island itself is the most important character. I could see the deep blue ...Read Review
