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The Sweet Girl
The Sweet Girl, Annabel Lyon’s follow up novel to her award winning 2011 novel, The Golden Mean, is a fast-moving,…
The Potter’s Hand
In his capacious new novel, Wilson brings his combined skills as novelist and biographer to the life of the great…
The Heat of the Sun
David Rain has imagined a sequel to the story in Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. In the opera, Butterfly has a…
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
What do you know about the Taiping Rebellion, or the Taiping Civil War as Stephen Platt prefers to call it?…
Azazeel
Set in the 5th century AD, these are the memoirs of Hypa, a Coptic monk. His journey begins when his…
Obedience
The last three remaining nuns are facing the closure of their convent – two are destined for an old people’s…
Today
Here’s one for Conrad aficionados, because the author – a London literary agent – makes no concession to readers unfamiliar…
Foreign Bodies
I had never read any of Ozick’s work before this one. Being a diehard Henry James devotee, I was intrigued…
The Golden Mean: A novel of Alexander the Great
Lyon’s debut historical novel is actually more about Aristotle than Alexander, although their lives were intimately entwined for a considerable…
Spooner
A thin line separates oddity from craziness! Spooner is a young boy and later man who follows the dictates of…
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