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2020

Against the Machine: Luddites

By Brian Van Norman - Published 2020

Genres:

1812. England faces Bonaparte and a war in America. Novels from this period like Jane Austen’s can ignore this darker side as ladies ...Read Review

The Silver Shooter: A Rose Gallagher Mystery

By Erin Lindsey - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy Mystery/Crime Western

The Silver Shooter is the exhilarating and entertaining third in Lindsey’s Rose Gallagher historical fantasy mystery series. Set in 1887, it opens in ...Read Review

American Gospel: A Novel

By Lin Enger - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

In American Gospel, the biblically named Enoch has a near-death experience and a vision of the Rapture, an event in which Christians believe ...Read Review

The Tainted

By Cauvery Madhavan - Published 2020

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Madhavan describes an era long gone which continues to make an impact. An Indian-born writer who has lived in Ireland for over thirty ...Read Review

The Mystery of Love

By Andrew Meehan - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In this strikingly original and ambitious book, Andrew Meehan gives us an account of the marriage of Constance and Oscar Wilde seen through ...Read Review

The Rising Place

By David Armstrong - Published 2020

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Young lawyer David moves from New York to his wife’s hometown of Hamilton, Mississippi. His first assignment is to prepare the will ...Read Review

The Once and Future Witches

By Alix E. Harrow - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In her new novel, set in the 1890s, author Harrow gathers witchcraft and suffrage into the same sentence, and the authentic historical fight ...Read Review

The Golden Maid (The Smuggler’s Daughters)

By Evie Grace - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

This book takes us back to the Napoleonic Wars of the 18th century together with the coastal trades of smuggling, particularly in Kent ...Read Review

The Tigress of Mysore

By Allan Mallinson - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure Military

The novel opens with Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Hervey happy indeed with his situation in India, both martial and marital. His prospects for advancement ...Read Review