Corsair
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
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Beirut in the 1950s is a hotbed of politics, where capitalist and communist interests clash in a struggle for influence throughout the region. ...Read Review
The Wisdom of Bones
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London, 1879. Percival Unusual George is a showman. He leads a troupe of nine performing Remarkables. He is driven by a dream of fame ...Read Review
Trinity
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Trinity portrays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man credited with being the Father of the Atomic Bomb, from the viewpoints of seven fictional characters. ...Read Review
The Martian Girl
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Jean Beckett is researching the life of the late 19th-century London musical hall artiste Kate French. She plans to put on a stage ...Read Review
The Verdun Affair
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This novel switches back and forth between California in 1950 and France and Italy as they recover from war in 1921. The title refers to ...Read Review
Never Anyone But You
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Suzanne Malherbe is a shy teenager in pre-WWI France. She’s a talented illustrator who doesn’t fully blossom until she meets the ...Read Review
Soot
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A cold and snowy winter in York at the end of the 18th century. Fletcher Rigge is a young man incarcerated in the ...Read Review
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
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This is the seventh in Brandreth’s popular series featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Having met in 1889, these rather different personalities ...Read Review
Manhattan Beach
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The latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan is quite a change from A Visit from the Goon Squad. In Manhattan Beach, the ...Read Review
The Maid’s Courage
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Ginny Thursday loses her mother and three siblings when a ferocious ‘flu epidemic sweeps through Nuneaton in the English Midlands in 1860. Her father, ...Read Review