2016

The Forgotten: Heir of the Heretic

By J. Lynn Else - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In this prequel to The Forgotten: Aten’s Last Queen, Else focuses on Merytaten, daughter of the Heretic Pharaoh. Merytaten narrates a tale ...Read Review

Calamity Jane: How the West Began

By Bryan Ney - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

Jane Canary is fifteen. As the book begins, she has yet to collect the epithet of ‘Calamity’ by which history will come to ...Read Review

Emilia

By Ellie Midwood - Published 2016

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Emilia is a Jewish teenager volunteering in a Polish hospital during WWII. When the Germans first take control of her city, life isn’...Read Review

The Locksmith’s Daughter

By Karen Brooks - Published 2016Published 2018

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Mallory Bright, the titular locksmith’s daughter, is trying to restore her reputation, which she ruined by running away with a man who ...Read Review

Cuckoo Song

By Frances Hardinge - Published 2016Published 2018Published c2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When Triss wakes up after an accident, she realises that something is very wrong, although she does not know what as she remembers ...Read Review

Charlotte

By David Foenkinos - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2016Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This novel, originally published in France in 2014 to great critical acclaim, tells the life story of the artist, Charlotte Salomon, born in Vienna ...Read Review

The Speech

By Andrew Smith - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The speech at the focal point of this novel is Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech – ‘I am filled with foreboding; ...Read Review

The Authentic William James

By Stephen Gallagher - Published 2016Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

1913. Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator for the Chancery in Lunacy, is usually charged with investigating madmen of the British aristocracy (a group whose penchant ...Read Review

The Girl from Oto

By Amy Maroney - Published 2016

Genres:

Thriller

This novel has a complicated, interconnecting dual timeline. One is contemporary in which Zari Durrell, an American art historian, secures work in Scotland ...Read Review

Sebastian’s Way: The Paladin

By George Steger - Published 2016

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Sebastian’s Way: The Paladin, book two of The Sebastian Chronicles, is the retelling of Charlemagne’s continued challenges as king, then emperor, ...Read Review