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Signs for Lost Children
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1880s England. Signs for Lost Children picks up directly from where Sarah Moss’ previous novel Bodies of Light left off. Freshly qualified doctor, ...Read Review
Swansong 1945
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This “collective diary” consisting of excerpts from diaries, letters and official memorandum covers the eighteen day period from Hitler’s final birthday to ...Read Review
Lucky Us
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Eva and Iris are sisters, aged 12 and 16. They are unaware of each other’s existence until their father’s wife dies, and Eva’...Read Review
Bodies of Light
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Bodies of Light is the story of a middle-class family in Victorian Manchester. Ally is the daughter and granddaughter of strong, idealistic women ...Read Review
The Letter Bearer: A Novel
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The Letter Bearer tells a story reminiscent of The English Patient, about a World War Two motorcycle courier whose bike runs over a ...Read Review
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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Housing four of the five senses, our brain, and the body’s most elaborate set of muscles, the head naturally ranks as preeminent ...Read Review
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz
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In August 1947, a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has come from Lodz in Poland and his ...Read Review
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
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Stefan Zweig was a Jewish intellectual, writer and biographer, one of the most popular European writers of the early 20th century. He left ...Read Review
The Road to Middlemarch
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George Eliot published her novel Middlemarch some forty years after the period of time it describes (1830-1832), so it might just have qualified ...Read Review
Lucky Us
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At the age of twelve, Evie Acton’s young mother leaves her on the steps of her father’s house, where she meets ...Read Review