Canongate Books
The Heart in Winter
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The setting for Kevin Barry’s small but mighty new novel is Butte, Montana in the 1890s. It’s a booming mining town ...Read Review
Restless Dolly Maunder
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Restless Dolly Maunder, set in Australia spanning the late 19th century until the 1950s, is part history, biography, story and memoire fused into ...Read Review
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
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I am reviewing these two books together, as they are very similar both in content and structure. Both authors are British-born children of ...Read Review
The Garden of Angels
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Venice was occupied by the Germans in WW2 for only 20 months (September 1943 to April 1945), but the occupation lay heavily upon the city. The ...Read Review
A Corruption of Blood (A Raven and Fisher Mystery, 3)
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Ambrose Parry is the pen-name of a married couple, Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman. Dr. Haetzman is an anaesthetist, but fear not, ...Read Review
Winchelsea
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Set in 1742 on the south coast of England, Winchelsea is a tale of smugglers and skullduggery on the high seas. But make no ...Read Review
Learwife
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This challenging novel will invite comparisons to Lauren Groff’s Matrix. Like that novel, this one’s protagonist is an aristocratic woman forced ...Read Review
Homelands: The History of a Friendship
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Homelands is the story of an unlikely friendship between the author, a journalist whose parents came to Britain from India in the late 1970...Read Review
The Night Ship
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The Night Ship is based on the story of the Batavia, the Dutch East India ship which was wrecked on a group of ...Read Review
To Calais, In Ordinary Time
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James Meek is a greatly respected author (The People’s Act of Love, 2005), and his latest book has been well reviewed. Hilary Mantel ...Read Review
