Black Swan
The Orientalist and the Ghost
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A more apt title for Barker’s second novel (after the award-winning Sayonara Bar) would be The Orientalist and the Ghosts, as it ...Read Review
The House of Special Purpose
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In this so-called ‘novel of the Romanovs’, John Boyne does what he has done so successfully in his previous novels, The Boy in ...Read Review
The Maestro’s Voice
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1926. Rocco Campobello is a world-renowned tenor – considered the greatest singer of his age – and after collapsing on stage in New York he retires ...Read Review
The Jewel Box
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Grace Rutherford is a pioneer. By day she is the first female copywriter at a stuffy advertising agency. By night, she is Diamond ...Read Review
I Want to Live
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This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s ...Read Review
A Dark Enchantment
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1869. Young Englishman Godwin Tudor visits Athens intending to photograph antiquities, but soon discovers that modern Greece is far more interesting. He is ...Read Review
The Book Thief
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This is a tale narrated by Death, or the Grim Reaper. He (or she or indeed it) tells the story of one Liesel ...Read Review
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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The story opens in Berlin during World War II and is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Bruno who lives with his parents ...Read Review
May and Amy
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The subtitle of this fascinating book goes far towards explaining its topic: “A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives ...Read Review
