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No Country for Love
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When idealistic teenager Debora Rosenbaum moves to Kharkiv in 1930, she believes everything she has been told about building a brave new world in ...Read Review
The Nightingale’s Castle
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The Nightingale’s Castle marks Sonia Velton’s triumphant return to historical fiction with a daring choice of subject matter: Erzsébet Bá...Read Review
The Rumor Game
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In June 1943, Boston residents are agitated. Irish Catholics hate the rising numbers of Jews and African Americans. Union workers complain about hard work, ...Read Review
Molly & the Captain
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This book takes its name from a picture of his two daughters made by the 18th-century painter William Merrymount. The other daughter in ...Read Review
A Dangerous Business
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In Smiley’s short but impactful latest, two sex workers get caught up in a crime-novel scenario, one calling to mind the Edgar ...Read Review
The King’s Revenge
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King Charles I was executed in 1649, his death warrant signed by 57 men.Twelve years later, the monarchy restored, King Charles II took the ...Read Review
The Whispering City
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Barcelona in 1952. When glamorous widow, Mariona Sobrerroca, is found murdered in her mansion, Inspector Isidro Castro is assigned to the investigation. Young newspaper ...Read Review
The Churchill Secret: KBO
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On 23 June 1953, after entertaining an Italian delegation to a witty after-dinner speech, Prime Minister Churchill, aged 79, suffered a major stroke. His deputy, Foreign ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Sword
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This is certainly a book with a difference. It is cited as fiction, but I would suggest that that is far from the ...Read Review
Every Man for Himself
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This is a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, originally published in 1996 and now reissued, as have been so many other ...Read Review
