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Palace of the Drowned
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It’s 1966, and more than a decade has passed since Frances (Frankie) Croy’s debut novel captured the London literary world; failure has ...Read Review
The Testimony of Alys Twist
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This is very much a novel which demonstrates the experience and perspective of history from below. Royalty, in this case Queen Mary the ...Read Review
Midnight Atlanta (Darktown)
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This is a revelatory historical novel that speaks directly to the language of today. We follow Tommy Smith, an ex-cop turned reporter, who ...Read Review
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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Dominion is a big book. Not only in length – although topping 500 pages, this shouldn’t be discounted – but in the sheer amount of ...Read Review
The Golden Wolf
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The Golden Wolf is a 9th-century Viking saga spanning across the regions of Norway to Iceland. This is the final book in The ...Read Review
Prague Spring
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The summer of 1968, and Europe is in political ferment. Sam Wareham is a British diplomat based in Czechoslovakia, who starts a rather ill-advised ...Read Review
Homer & Langley
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For a review suited to this journal, it is well to begin by pointing out that the novel is not, and does not ...Read Review
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance
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This is a charming book best suited for about the 10 to 15 age range, but quite entertaining and informative for adults regarding the daily ...Read Review
Afternoons with Emily
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This novel, which echoes of the style of some novels of the 19th century, immediately enveloped me, and it has not let go, ...Read Review
The Terror
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In 1845, two ships of the Royal Navy, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, led by Sir John Franklin, attempted to sail through ...Read Review
