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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…
The Miniaturist
Editors' choice
Autumn, 1686. Petronella Oortman arrives at the home of her new husband, Johannes Brandt, the wealthiest merchant in Amsterdam. But…
The Angel of Losses
Stephanie Feldman’s debut novel, The Angel of Losses, weaves fable, family, religion and mystery together as she tells the story…
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE-1492 CE
This elegant history is, in the author’s words, ‘one of the heroism of everyday life as much as that of…
The Valley of Amazement
If you are interested in immersing yourself in the elaborate culture of the Chinese courtesan’s life of the early 20th…
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