Fourth Estate
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
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In 1873, Mrs. Violet Wood is a most respected medium hosting séances in fashionable homes all across London, with her indispensable assistant, Miss ...Read Review
The Trackers
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Directionless young artist Val finds deliverance from the ravages of the Great Depression in an assignment to paint a New Deal mural in ...Read Review
The Book of Goose
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Two teenage friends in 1950s rural France navigate a stultifying existence. Fabienne is original, bright, and unpredictable; Agnès follows her lead. The ...Read Review
Dark Earth
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AD 500, and sisters Isla and Blue sit on an island in the Thames, watching the tide creep up on the Ghost City, formerly ...Read Review
M: Son of the Century: A Novel
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Benito Mussolini prepares to speak to a small group of people in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolcro on March 23, 1919. His eyes have been ...Read Review
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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In 1973 a baby girl is born to Belle and Geoff Garfield. Ailey Pearl Garfield is a lover of books, a child whose lineage ...Read Review
Still Life
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Spanning four decades, this novel begins in 1944 as Allied troops liberate Italy. British soldier Ulysses “Temps” Temper meets middle-aged art historian Evelyn Skinner ...Read Review
Crossroads
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Days before Christmas 1971, long-ignored pressures seethe within the Hildebrandt family, whose patriarch, Russ, is associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church. His eldest ...Read Review
The Tolstoy Estate
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Steven Conte describes his second novel, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, as the ‘love child’ of War and Peace and the less ...Read Review
The Light at the End of the Day
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In 1937 Krakow, Poland, Adam Oderfeldt, a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur, commissions a portrait of his younger daughter, Alicia, as her present for her 12th ...Read Review