Black Swan

Island of Secrets

By Rachel Rhys - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

1957 London. Iris Bailey, a talented amateur portrait artist, is working in a typing pool for a firm of architects when she receives an ...Read Review

An Echo of Scandal

By Laura Madeleine - Published 2019

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This novel effortlessly spans a fifty-year time gap with a story that keeps the reader turning until the last page. Accused of murder, ...Read Review

The Secrets Between Us

By Laura Madeleine - Published 2018

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Set in southern France, just north of Nice, the story features the Italian occupation of the area in 1943. Ceci (Celeste) Corvin’s father ...Read Review

Old Baggage

By Lissa Evans - Published 2018Published 2019

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The golden, but flawed burden of the memories we carry with us from youth is the subject of Lissa Evans’ beautiful novel, which ...Read Review

The Last Son’s Secret

By Mara Faye Lethem (trans.) - By Rafael Nadal Farreras - Published 2017

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Saga

This is an international bestseller first published in 2015 and the first of the author’s works to be translated into English, in this ...Read Review

Where the Wild Cherries Grow

By Laura Madeleine - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Prologue: there is a cliff to be climbed. Below there are sea-washed rocks, and above there are sounds of merrymaking from a town. ...Read Review

Their Finest

By Lissa Evans - Published 2010Published 2017

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Literary

Their Finest, coming to the U.S. after an Orange Prize nomination and with a forthcoming film adaptation, brings humor, heartbreak, and more ...Read Review

The Confectioner’s Tale

By Laura Madeleine - Published 2015Published 2016

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In 1988, Petra Stevenson has been working on her Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge on the period of history known as the Belle Époque. ...Read Review

The Incarnations

By Susan Barker - Published 2015

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Literary

The Incarnations is unlike any book you are likely to read this year. And that is a good thing, because you will not ...Read Review

The Kitchen House

By Kathleen Grissom - Published 2010 (US)Published 2013

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1791: A traumatised seven-year-old Irish orphan, Lavinia, is indentured to the owner of a tobacco plantation in Virginia. She is white, but is set ...Read Review