Bloomsbury (UK)
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Sherlock
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This is the fascinating story of how Arthur Conan Doyle developed one of the most beloved characters in English literature, Sherlock Holmes. Sims ...Read Review
Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins
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This is a collection of six short stories, closely adjacent in time, which is the fourth installment in the Grantchester Mysteries, starring the ...Read Review
The Night of the Burning
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This novel tells the true story of Devorah and Nechama Lehrman, the only survivors of a massacre of the Jews in their Polish ...Read Review
The Women
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The visionary, egocentric subject of this book, architect/designer Frank Lloyd Wright, changed the course of history. Whatever his faults, foibles, or eccentricities, ...Read Review
The Archivist’s Story
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Moscow 1939. Pavel Dubrov, a young archivist is given the final works by the author Isaac Babel to destroy. The young man in a ...Read Review
Chains
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Teenaged Isabel and her five-year-old sister Ruth had understood they would be freed upon the death of their owner. But the recent Revolutionary ...Read Review
Zugzwang
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Zugzwang: a position in chess in which a player is obliged to move, though every move makes his position worse, resulting in helplessness. ...Read Review
The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe & the Birth of Modern Warfare
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World War I was not, according to David Bell, the first total war. During the age of Napoleon wars devastated Europe for twenty ...Read Review
Restless
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Ruth is a young single mother in mid-1970s Oxford, teaching English to foreign students and executives while avoiding working on her thesis; ...Read Review
The House of Windjammer
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Amsterdam 1636, at the height of tulipmania. The merchant-shipping family of Windjammer is facing ruin. Four galleons have been ship-wrecked and there is no ...Read Review