Bloomsbury USA
Ignorance
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Jeanne and Marie-Angele both grow up in the village of Ste-Marie-du-Ciel, and both survive the Nazi invasion. Jeanne, whose mother converted from Judaism ...Read Review
Gloria
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Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is 16 when a violent deed forces her to flee to Kingston with her sister. There she meets the people who ...Read Review
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
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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
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
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This notorious case has undergone numerous academic and popular study, following the centenary of Alfred Dreyfus’ rehabilitation in 1906. The subtitle of Read’s ...Read Review
Wilderness
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More than thirty years have passed since the close of the Civil War, yet its ghosts and wounds still haunt Abel Truman. He ...Read Review
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
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The Shadow of Death, despite its ominous title, is first in a series of interconnected, gentle mysteries set in 1953, and featuring the humane ...Read Review
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
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In 1923, Evangeline English is stagnating in gray, sedentary Dorset. When her sister Lizzie joins Millicent Frost, a charismatic missionary, in a venture to ...Read Review
In Darkness
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Two years after the earthquake, the crippling poverty and devastation faced by the Haitian people has all but disappeared from the news in ...Read Review
Mister Creecher
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Two outcasts inhabit London in 1818 – one of them 15-year-old Billy, a pickpocket and thief, the other a hulking creature given life by Dr. ...Read Review
The End of Sparta
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In 371 B.C.E., the Theban general Epaminondas and his army of farmers defeated the Spartans against staggering odds at the Battle of ...Read Review
