Chatto & Windus
The Antidote
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Fans of Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead will want to grab this gorgeous magical-realist novel set on the Nebraska prairie during the height ...Read Review
The Antidote
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Harp’s earliest memory is the killing of the jackrabbits, crying and dying. Orphaned—Dell’s mother Lada ran away with ‘a roustabout’ ...Read Review
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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While browsing the Oxford University Press archives, academic Sarah Ogilvie came across the hitherto unknown black notebook of James Murray. Murray was the ...Read Review
Absolutely and Forever
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England in the late 1950s and early ´60s. Marianne Clifford comes from a comfortable, complacent middle-class background. Public-school educated, her life is shaped ...Read Review
The Bookbinder of Jericho (UK) / The Bookbinder (US)
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Oxford 1914, and Peggy Jones’ job involves folding folios of paper and making up volumes in the Clarendon Press bindery in Oxford. She is ...Read Review
A History of Burning
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The history of Indians who lived in East Africa may be little known, but there are still many alive today who were sent ...Read Review
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
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1838, and in Tyldesley, Lancashire, a man carefully pastes fabric cuttings into a scrapbook. In slanting copperplate, he records: This is the dress my ...Read Review
The New Life
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London in the final decade of the 19th century. In his debut novel, Tom Crewe focuses on the restrictions and judgments of late ...Read Review
French Braid
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Anne Tyler knows families: the ebb and flow of relationships across decades, the strengths and foibles of individual members, and the ties connecting ...Read Review
Lily: A Tale of Revenge
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Born in 1850, Lily Mortimer is found as a just-delivered baby and is taken to Coram’s Foundling Hospital children’s home by a ...Read Review
