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Mr Mac and Me

By Esther Freud - Published 2014 (UK)Published 2015 (US)

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One should never judge a book by its cover. The cover to Mr Mac and Me, a fictionalisation of the time Charles Rennie ...Read Review

Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series)

By Ruth Downie - Published 2014Published 2014-10-09

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Mystery/Crime

From the first book in Ruth Downie’s Gaius Ruso series, I fell in love with the gruff but good-hearted Roman medical officer ...Read Review

Pig’s Foot

By Carlos Acosta - By Frank Wayne (trans.) - Published 2013

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Literary

Oscar Kortico, descendant of the founding family of a small, poverty-struck hamlet in a far flung part of Cuba, takes readers on a ...Read Review

The Man Who Walked Away

By Maud Casey - Published 2014

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Literary

Maud Casey’s poetic and beautiful account of a late 19th-century French mental asylum explores both patients’ and caregivers’ struggle with the new ...Read Review

The Poet’s Wives

By David Park - Published 2014

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Literary

Irish writer David Park’s beautifully written ninth book depicts the exacting role of the woman who is often muse, sometimes critic, lover, ...Read Review

How Paris Became Paris

By Joan DeJean - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

Everyone knows that Paris looks like it does because of Baron Haussmann, the 19th-century civil servant who broadened the City of Light’s ...Read Review

The Wives of Los Alamos

By TaraShea Nesbit - Published 2014

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In March 1943, doorbells ring at the comfortable homes of academics in some American university towns. Their wives admit “a young man in a ...Read Review

Home Fires

By Elizabeth Day - Published 2013

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Elizabeth Day’s quiet, moving novel about war and recovery tells the stories of soldiers who come home and those who do not. ...Read Review

Flora

By Gail Godwin - Published 2013

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Godwin, ever the keen observer of human nature, is at her finest here in this startling coming-of-age tale of a young Southern girl ...Read Review

The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

By Lara Feigel - Published 2013

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Nonfiction

In The Love-Charm of Bombs, Lara Feigel describes the lives of five writers in and following the Second World War, writers she describes ...Read Review

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