2024
The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter
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This is an ambitious, emotionally freighted novel set in Cornwall in the uneasy years following the Civil War and during the recurring plague ...Read Review
A Very Musical Murder
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Although much of the action in this novel takes place in 2017, it begins in 1917 and returns there periodically as the plot unravels and ...Read Review
Time Enough
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In 1905, as Euphemia’s husband’s health deteriorates due to his work in the mines, she must confront her past to prevent her ...Read Review
Cottonopolis
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This short novel opens with Nellie Doyle describing the sights and sounds of 1840s Manchester, where she lives in one room in an ...Read Review
Land of Morrow
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The novel incorporates an intriguing idea: the victims of the Black Death in England in the 1340s don’t die, but turn into ...Read Review
Artimon (The Montenegrin)
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The second book in The Montenegrin series takes place in 1495 during the endless wars between France and the various Italian states. It picks ...Read Review
A Bearer of Tales (Grandmothers’ Footsteps Book 4)
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Any reference to the sinking of the Titanic is a fail-safe attention-grabber, which Marilyn Pemberton employs to very good effect in the opening ...Read Review
The Tapestry of Time
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In June 1944, Kit Sharp is shocked to get a glimpse of her younger sister Ivy on Rue de Clichy. Ivy is supposed to ...Read Review
Beyond The First
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Stories set during the Great War are plentiful, and it takes something distinctive to justify adding another fictional account of the conflict and ...Read Review
Eve’s Rib
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Annabelle is a brilliant woman, but almost nobody knows the truth of it. Forced by the convention of Victorian London to hide in ...Read Review
