2020
The Odyssey of Geronimo
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Sonora, Mexico, 1886. On an isolated mountain, Geronimo and a dwindling and hunted band of Apaches are hiding from both the Mexican and American ...Read Review
The Philosopher’s Daughters
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Australian author, Alison Booth, has had four previously published historical novels, including Stillwater Creek and The Indigo Sky. Her previous novels are predominantly ...Read Review
The Florios of Sicily
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Translated from Italian, this novel follows seventy years of the 19th century’s most powerful real-life family of Sicily. The story opens in 1799 ...Read Review
Dangerous Freedom
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This isn’t a typical novel about slavery. It is a fictional portrayal of a real figure, Dido, the daughter of an African ...Read Review
First Comes Scandal: A Bridgerton Prequel
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1791. Summoned home urgently from medical school in Edinburgh, Nicholas Rokesby is grateful it is not for a death in the family. He is ...Read Review
The Foundling (UK) / The Lost Orphan (US)
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In 1748, Bessie Bright gives birth to an illegitimate daughter, Clara. Due to her poverty-stricken circumstances, she is forced to leave the newborn at ...Read Review
Death and the Chevalier (A Cragg and Fidelis Mystery)
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Prestonians in Lancashire, England, have bitter memories of the Scottish risings of 1715 and 1719 that left much of the town in ashes. In November 1745, ...Read Review
Tsarina
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This is the story of Catherine I of Russia, not to be confused with Catherine the Great. This Catherine was born in 1684 to ...Read Review
Fierce Dreamer
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was raised in the almost exclusively male art world of 17th-century Italy. She had a natural eye for colour, texture, ...Read Review
Tyll
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Tyll Ulenspiegel was a German jester and trickster, and legend places his death in 1350. In this novel the German author Daniel Kehlmann has ...Read Review
