Doubleday
The Hollywood Daughter
New York City, 1959. Jessica Malloy is a struggling journalist who has left her Hollywood childhood behind. But when she…
Lilli de Jong
In her debut novel, Janet Benton believably imagines the speed with which a young woman’s life can change from safe,…
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
In a small parish in West Cork in 1945, Catherine Goggin, aged just 16, is pregnant and unmarried and with…
Clover Moon
Eleven-year-old Clover Moon lives in a back street slum in Victorian London with her six siblings and her put-upon father.…
Orphans of the Carnival
Julia Pastrana, born in 1834, is painfully aware that she is unique. As a little girl in a Sinaloa orphanage,…
The Underground Railroad
In the antebellum era, Cora, a teenager born into slavery on a Georgia plantation, agrees to flee with a literate…
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Editors' choice
Los Angeles, 1968. Private Investigator Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, having just opened his own detective agency, is feeling pretty good about…
A Country Road, A Tree
Editors' choice
This is the story of an Irish writer’s bleak WWII years in German-occupied France. “A Country Road, a Tree” is…
The Ballroom
Editors' choice
It is the long hot summer of 1911, and Dr Charles Fuller works as a First Medical Officer at the…
Fever at Dawn
1945 and war has just ended in Europe. Miklós (family name not revealed) and Lili Reich were both Jewish-Hungarian prisoners…
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