Doubleday
Belle Cora
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Having just survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the elderly and respectable Mrs Andersen decides it’s time to…
If I Close my Eyes Now
As Yuri Gagarin transmits from space, and indelibly changes our view of ourselves, two young boys bunking off school in…
Dissident Gardens
In Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem presents 20th-century New York in a sweeping tale of strong women, ideals and disappointments. Rose…
Longbourn
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Longbourn is the story of the servants who work for the Bennet family of Pride and Prejudice, including the housekeeper,…
Sandakan
We are all familiar with the iconic stories of the Second World War in the Pacific. Images of American soldiers…
The Rathbones
In the 18th century, generations of Rathbones sailed the Connecticut coastline hunting sperm whale and building an empire from their…
The Light in the Ruins
What was it like for Italians and Germans to coexist as allies when the reality was that neither trusted each…
This House is Haunted
Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving,…
Life After Life
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Ursula Todd is born in February 1910 to a comfortable middle class family in the ease and seemingly unending stability…
Paris
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Rutherfurd, an author known for his multigenerational epics set in some of the world’s most storied locales, tackles the City…
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