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The New Inheritors
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Isaac Patterson, an orphan in the lawless wilds of 1890s rural Florida, barely escapes on his stepmother’s back from murderous roughnecks. Separated ...Read Review
Country Dark
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It’s been almost twenty years since Offutt’s last work of fiction, but the wait has been worth it. In Country Dark, ...Read Review
The Western Wind
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England in February 1491. John Reve is the priest in the small, benighted village of Oakham, in Somerset. He is told by the rural ...Read Review
The Mercy Seat
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Louisiana, 1943. An 18-year-old African American man sits alone in his cell awaiting his execution. His crime is the alleged rape of a white ...Read Review
Friends and Traitors
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Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy has known Guy Burgess since the mid-1930s. Burgess, a product of Cambridge and a Russian ...Read Review
Miss Burma
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Miss Burma opens with an attention-grabbing prologue that sees fifteen-year-old Louisa, a young woman of mixed racial heritage, crowned in her country’s ...Read Review
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
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In Borman’s latest, the focus is not only the personal relationships of the Tudor monarchs and their intimates, but also the trappings ...Read Review
Valiant Gentlemen
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In 1889, Roger Casement and Herbert Ward are employed by a British expedition in the Congo and their friendship is forged, differences overlooked. Ward ...Read Review
Not All Bastards Are From Vienna
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This restrained, beautifully written debut novel looks at war from the microcosm of a single location, that of a villa in the small ...Read Review
The Unfortunate Englishman
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I confess that I do enjoy ambiguous titles. Does “the unfortunate Englishman” refer to MI6 agent, Joe Holderness, dragged back into the government ...Read Review
