Doubleday
Call of the Curlew (UK) / The Orphan of Salt Winds (US)
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December 1939, and Virginia, an orphan aged 10, is adopted by Clem & Lorna Wrathmell. She is taken to their large house, Salt Winds, on ...Read Review
Mercury Falling
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The east of England in the summer of 1954. Jimmy Devlin, aged 30, lives off his wits in a peripatetic hand-to-mouth existence, finding work and ...Read Review
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Another entertaining historical novel from Kate Atkinson, set mostly in London in the early years of the Second World War. The main protagonist ...Read Review
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Sir Walter Raleigh is given a charter by Elizabeth I, and in 1587, 115 English colonists land on Roanoke Island on what is now the ...Read Review
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
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Many thousands of words have been written about the Presidency of Harry S. Truman. This remarkable book is an intimate biographical portrait about ...Read Review
For the Immortal
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The final novel in the Golden Apple trilogy from Emily Hauser is a triumphant finale. This story continues to draw from the many ...Read Review
Mad Blood Stirring
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The turn of the year 1815 sees the little-remembered war with America end, though the peace treaty has yet to be ratified. In the ...Read Review
Rose Rivers
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Late Victorian London. 13-year-old Rose Rivers lives in a large house with her artist father, her self-centred mother, and her six siblings. Her ...Read Review
I Was Anastasia
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I’ll start by revealing that I’m a huge Romanov junkie, and so predisposed to like this novel. With a very few ...Read Review
Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgimage and How Women Won the Vote
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Knowing the differences between suffragists and suffragettes may seem clear cut to us now, but at that distance in history, fake news was ...Read Review