Canongate
Things in Jars
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Red-haired, sharp-witted Bridie Devine is an interesting woman; she’s been a lot of things in her life, the latest of which is ...Read Review
Charlotte
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This novel, originally published in France in 2014 to great critical acclaim, tells the life story of the artist, Charlotte Salomon, born in Vienna ...Read Review
How to Stop Time
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This is a book about time travel, but not travel back in time. The hero, known in the present as Tom Hazard, travels ...Read Review
Himself
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Mahoney is a 26-year-old Dubliner in 1976, searching for how he ended up in an orphanage and, equally, what happened to his wayward mother. ...Read Review
Orphans of the Carnival
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Julia Pastrana, born in 1834, is painfully aware that she is unique. As a little girl in a Sinaloa orphanage, she imagines that Mexico’...Read Review
Beatlebone
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Ireland, 1978: John Lennon seeks sanctuary on Dorinish, the tiny island in Achill Bay he purchased some years earlier. John yearns for a few ...Read Review
Night Boat
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At the foot of Mount Fuji towards the end of the 17th century, eight year-old Iwajiro attends a lecture on the Eight Hot ...Read Review
The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy, and the Curse of Byron
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In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron’s refuge from notoriety in Geneva, together with a young doctor, John Polidori, coincided with that of ...Read Review
The Specimen
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Between 1859 and 1866, Gwen Carrick and her sister Euphemia live by the Helford River in Cornwall. Gwen is an artist specialising in drawing and ...Read Review
Sarah Thornhill
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As she did in the first book of this trilogy, The Secret River, Kate Grenville delves into her family history to recreate Sarah ...Read Review
