Doubleday
A Country Road, A Tree
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This is the story of an Irish writer’s bleak WWII years in German-occupied France. “A Country Road, a Tree” is…
The Ballroom
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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…
The Heavenly Table
The Jewett family is grasping at existence as Southern sharecroppers in 1917 when their patriarch drops dead. With their mother…
The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus
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In David Anthony Durham’s novels of ancient Rome, Rome plays the villain. Pride of Carthage mapped Hannibal’s attempt to overthrow…
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
After seven-year-old Pierrot is orphaned, he is sent to live with his aunt Beatrix, leaving behind his home in Paris…
A Slice of the Moon
Rosalind Hannigan’s tale begins in 1845 in a poor but loving home in Ballysmaragaid, Ireland. Affectionately called ‘Slim’ by her…
The French Lesson
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1792. Henrietta Lightfoot, the 19-year-old daughter of an earl, has left behind her country and respectability to live as the…
Noonday
This novel completes the trilogy which began with Life Class and Toby’s Room. London in 1940 features shattered glass, buildings…
Little Stars: A Hetty Feather Mystery
I’d read the first Hetty Feather adventure some time ago and was curious to see how this foundling child had…
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