2014
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
The Easter Rising: Molly’s Diary
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Patricia Murphy, the prize-winning producer and director of BBC and Channel 4 documentaries, has here produced a lively historical novel based on solid fact. ...Read Review
The Saffron Crocus
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The atmosphere of seventeenth-century Venice is richly and satisfyingly evoked in Alison McMahon’s Young Adult adventure story, in which fifteen-year-old Isabella is ...Read Review
Isabella’s Libretto
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Isabella’s Libretto is a gem of a book about a teenager who, in the early 1700s, was abandoned at birth at a ...Read Review
Voices
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Voices is a collection of twenty short stories and covers some varied time periods and locations. We begin with a straightforward, old-fashioned (slightly ...Read Review
Alex’s Wake: The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany, and a Grandson’s Journey of Love and Remembrance
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In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt, along with more than 900 other Jewish refugees, flee Nazi Germany on board the SS St. ...Read Review
The Way Back to Florence
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The Way back to Florence is a well-written and exciting first novel set during the Second World War. It is also a book ...Read Review
