2017
The German Girl
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Berlin in 1939 is seen through the eyes of Hannah Rosenthal, who starts her tale with “I was almost twelve years old when I ...Read Review
Twilight of Empire III: Battle for Rome
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Battle for Rome is the third novel in Ian Ross’ Twilight of Empire series, following Constantine’s rise to power from Britain to ...Read Review
Homegoing
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In the 18th century in what is now Ghana, then the Gold Coast, half-sisters are born in different villages. One grows up to ...Read Review
Mister Memory
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At one level this is a very good roman policier, set in Paris in the Belle Époque. It begins with a crime passionnel ...Read Review
Freya
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The novel starts at the end of the Second World War. Freya Wyley, aged 20, has been doing intelligence work for the Wrens and ...Read Review
Salt Creek
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In the 1870s, Hester Finch lives a comfortable life in her ancestral family home near Chichester in England, but she is beset by ...Read Review
The Girl from Rawblood
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This is a novel dominated by the figure of She – who She is and whether She really exists or is part of the ...Read Review
The Pagoda Tree
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In 18th-century India, women are the chattels of gods or men. When she is branded a handmaiden of Shiva, young Maya’s destiny ...Read Review
