2020

Runaway Bride (The Bride Ships)

By Jody Hedlund - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational RomanceNautical

In 1862, Arabella boards a bride ship to British Columbia to escape the attentions of a brutal man. She wants to put the past ...Read Review

The Pelton Papers

By Mari Coates - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This beautifully rendered biographical novel imagines the vibrant interior world of 20th-century artist Agnes Pelton. Forgotten after her death in 1961, Pelton is having ...Read Review

The Bastille Spy (A Revolution Spy Series)

By C.S. Quinn - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

1789. Attica Morgan, illegitimate daughter of an English lord and an African princess, erstwhile slave, and now British spy, killer, and a woman with ...Read Review

Tell Me How It Ends

By Isabelle Grey - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

London, 1963: the beautiful, enigmatic singer Delia Maxwell disappears the week she is supposed to sign her first film contract. Frank Landry, a security ...Read Review

The Wall of Willows (Magic Mirror)

By Luther Tsai - By Nury Vittachi - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Modern-day middle schoolers Marko and Miranda use their grandfather’s magic mirror to journey back in time to 210 BCE China. The first Chinese ...Read Review

Jackie and Maria (US) / The Second Marriage (UK)

By Gill Paul - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Jackie and Maria explores the eponymous two women and their connection through the millionaire philanderer, Aristotle Onassis. The narrative is divided into two ...Read Review

Place of Repose: St Cuthbert’s Last Journey

By Katharine Tiernan - Published 2020

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Place of Repose is Katharine Tiernan’s second novel in a trilogy focused on the period in the history of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria which ...Read Review

Lake of Darkness

By Scott Kenemore - Published 2020

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Joe (Flip) Flippety is a black cop working in Chicago during WWI. Some grotesque decapitations and mutilations of identical black twins have taken ...Read Review

Angelica, Paintress of Minds

By Miranda Miller - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This fictionalised account of the life of Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), Swiss-born portraitist, history painter and one of the two female founders of the ...Read Review

The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West

By Catherine Fletcher - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

The Beauty and the Terror captures, in increments of topical chapters, a place and time whose global influence—economic, religious, political, and artistic—...Read Review