2020
The Forgotten Kingdom (The Lost Queen 2)
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Set in the south of Scotland in the 6th century, the second book in a series continues the story of Languoreth, twin sister ...Read Review
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge)
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Over a century before The Pillars of the Earth, the future English cathedral town of Kingsbridge is a mere hamlet with a stone ...Read Review
Back to School
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Education at the end of the 1960s saw most classes still taught in rows, facing forwards and with the teacher holding the children’...Read Review
Jo & Laurie
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I am a forty-year-old English teacher, and I somehow missed the novel and the dozens of film and television adaptations of Louisa May ...Read Review
The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus
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Set in the Çırağan Palace in Istanbul in 1903-1905, this novel, written by a direct descendant, chronicles the lengthy gilded imprisonment and ...Read Review
The Deadly Hours
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The four novellas that comprise The Deadly Hours span the years 1733 to 1945. A fabulous gold pocket watch, La Sirène, made with cursed ...Read Review
The Exiles
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In London, 1840, Evangeline, a governess to a wealthy family, finds herself in dire straits. Having been led astray by the couple’s older ...Read Review
Wishes, Dares, and How to Stand Up to a Bully
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Eleven-year-old Jack, five-year-old Katy, and their mother are spending the summer living with the children’s paternal grandparents. Jack’s father is MIA ...Read Review
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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This is a witty and erudite summary of murder and death as a part of Roman daily life. Emma Southon’s work spans ...Read Review
The Three Impostors
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It is 1688, and Achim Müller is travelling to Kiel together with the utterly unlikeable Pastor Mayer. For a while, I suspected the ...Read Review
