Bloomsbury Publishing
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
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As the author says in her note, this is a work of fiction, based on B. A. Windeatt’s translation of The Book ...Read Review
The Paris Muse
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Artist’s muse: a sublime devotee, one could presuppose. For controversial French creative Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso’s lover in the perspective-changing art ...Read Review
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
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It’s 1919, the Great War is over, and everyone is expected to get back to their normal, meaning pre-war, lives. No one wants ...Read Review
Saltblood
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What a juicy subject for a historical novel—an infamous female buccaneer during the Golden Age of Piracy and her infamous shipmates, Anne ...Read Review
Held
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The publisher’s blurb calls Held a “breathtaking and ineffable” novel, and it is. There is a dreamlike quality to this multi-decade, multi-generational ...Read Review
Library for the War-Wounded
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Set in Europe after the Second World War, this family novel focuses on the narrator’s father, Josef. Having lost his lower right ...Read Review
Let Us Descend
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Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review
The Ghost Theatre
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In a fantastical yet mostly recognizable Elizabethan London, teenage Shay, a member of a bird-worshipping religion, joins up with a troupe of boy ...Read Review
The House of Doors
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Tan Twan Eng is not a prolific writer, but his books are worth waiting for. The House of Doors is set mainly in ...Read Review
Last House Before the Mountain
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In 1914, Maria and Josef live with their children at the end of a valley in westernmost Austria. Their forefathers, poor itinerant laborers, arrived ...Read Review