Ballantine Books
All We Were Promised
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Lattimore’s debut exudes originality in its characters, plot situations, and especially in its well-chosen setting of 1830s Philadelphia, “the self-proclaimed cradle of ...Read Review
I Am Rome: A Novel of Julius Caesar
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In the twilight of the Roman Republic, corruption and social unrest reach tremendous heights, exemplified by the horrible actions of Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella. ...Read Review
Finding Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller, friend and muse to Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and a host of other Victorian literary luminaries, is an ideal subject for ...Read Review
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows (UK) / The Passionate Tudor (US)
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A lot has been written about Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and queen regnant of England, in the last 25 years. Most of ...Read Review
A Christmas Vanishing: A Novel (Anne Perry’s Christmas)
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Over several standalone outings, Mariah Ellison, the formidable Grandmama of Charlotte Pitt from Perry’s long-running mystery series, has proved to have her ...Read Review
The Underground Library
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Jennifer Ryan’s new novel returns to the familiar ground of World War II London during the Blitz. Juliet Lansdown, a young woman ...Read Review
The Traitor Among Us (An Elena Standish Novel, 5)
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Only a fool would think it couldn’t happen here. England’s fate hangs in the balance during the fifth instalment of Anne ...Read Review
The Golden Doves
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Building on the success of her Lilac Girls trilogy, Kelly’s The Golden Doves takes the reader into the turbulent decade following the ...Read Review
The Bookbinder of Jericho (UK) / The Bookbinder (US)
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Oxford 1914, and Peggy Jones’ job involves folding folios of paper and making up volumes in the Clarendon Press bindery in Oxford. She is ...Read Review
The Madwomen of Paris
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In this novel, set in a monolithic asylum in Paris in the late 1800s, protagonist Laure is both a former inmate and current ...Read Review
