Doubleday
V for Victory
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London in the Autumn of 1944, and V1 and V2 rockets are falling on the capital, causing misery and destruction, though the airplane bombing ...Read Review
A Tip for the Hangman
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) is the Jimi Hendrix of great playwrights. Marlowe’s meteoric career fizzled mysteriously 427 years ago. Just a few brilliant plays ...Read Review
Miss Benson’s Beetle
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A spinster teacher in her mid-forties in a girls’ school in ration-hit, grey-toned, austerity England in 1950, Miss Margery Benson walks out of her ...Read Review
The Liar’s Dictionary
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Split between the 19th century and present day, this is a delightfully exuberant, playful novel that is difficult to categorise or briefly summarise. ...Read Review
Fortune Favors the Dead: A Novel (Pentecost and Parker)
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It’s the early 1940s in New York, and private investigator Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Willowjean (Will) Parker are hired to investigate ...Read Review
Coming Up for Air
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Three timelines. Three stories. Three lives. Coming Up for Air is an exquisite story of medical advancement. By successfully balancing these three stories, ...Read Review
Summerlings
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In the summer of 1959, Washington D.C. suffers an invasion of spiders, prompting adult paranoia and conspiracy theories about Russian attacks. For Howorth’...Read Review
The Illness Lesson
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Fiercely intelligent, passionately feeling, and extremely well educated, Caroline Hood of Ashwell, Massachusetts seems a fortunate young lady. Her father, a 19th-century utopian ...Read Review
The Warlow Experiment
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Enlightenment ideas and desire for personal acclaim influence reclusive, wealthy landowner and amateur scientist Herbert Powyss. He plans an experiment. How would complete ...Read Review
The Innocents
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Evered, a 12-year-old boy, and his younger sister, Ada, are left without parents after both die within a short time of each other. ...Read Review