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Varina
At Saratoga Springs in 1906, the widowed Varina Howell Davis relates pieces of her life’s journey to visitor James Blake…
Tangerine
Editors' choice
Christine Mangan’s debut novel, Tangerine, takes us into the twisting and menacing streets and alleyways of 1950s Tangier, Morocco. Beginning…
The War Bride’s Scrapbook: A Novel in Pictures
Editors' choice
Preston, author of the acclaimed scrapbook novel The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, delivers again with her second foray into this…
The Twelve-Mile Straight
In Depression-era rural Georgia, twin babies are born to Elma Jesup. This would not normally be cause for any eyebrows…
The Muse
In her second novel (after The Miniaturist, 2014), Burton links two talented young women of different generations with the fate…
Church of Marvels
This is a book of hate and violence. Starting in a fairground on New York’s Coney Island in 1895, a…
Mislaid
Following the success of Wallcreeper—which she wrote in four days—and with her much ballyhooed relationship with Jonathan Franzen, one can’t…
The Girl from the Garden
In present-day Los Angeles, Mahboubeh, an elderly woman, sits in her picturesque garden and, while looking through photographs, recollects her…
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
Thomas Asbridge’s highly readable book on the life of the medieval knight, William Marshal, is effectively aimed at both lay…
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
One chapter in this novel begins: “Tombstone was glad to see the end of 1881. Hell of a year, everyone…
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