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Death at Dawn

By Caro Peacock - Published 2008

Genres:

Liberty Lane has been brought up to believe in liberty, fraternity and equality by her freethinking father, but it seems to have brought ...Read Review

The Heir

By Barbara Taylor Bradford - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

The Heir is the second book in Bradford’s series about the Deravenel family, yet it stands alone very well. There were some “...Read Review

The Maytrees

By Annie Dillard - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

The novel opens in Provincetown, Massachusetts, just after the Second World War. Toby Maytree, a thirty-year-old poet and part-time house-mover, meets Lou ...Read Review

Vivaldi’s Virgins

By Barbara Quick - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Anna Maria dal Violin, abandoned as a baby, now lives as an orphan in the foundling home and cloisters of the Ospedale della ...Read Review

The Luxe

By anna Godberson - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Well, it had to happen. Edith Wharton meets chick lit. It’s 1899 in Manhattan, and glam girls vie for irresistible boys while guarding ...Read Review

Dragons from the Sea

By Judson Roberts - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the second book in a series (the Strongbow Saga) about a young Viking warrior, Halfdan Hroriksson, who lives at the time ...Read Review

The Whale Road

By Robert Low - Published 2007

Genres:

Military Saga

This is Robert Low’s first part of a Viking trilogy, and his first novel. Robert Low has been a writer and journalist ...Read Review

Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

By Nick Drake - Published 2006 Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Mystery/Crime

Queen Nefertiti, wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, has disappeared right before the all-important Jubilee celebration. Theban detective Rai Rahotep must travel to ...Read Review

Lords of the North

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2007

Genres:

Adventure Military

This is the third book in the Saxon Chronicles series. It begins in 878 AD, shortly after Alfred’s victory over the Danes at ...Read Review

Resurrectionist

By James McGee - Published 2007 Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The setting is Regency London. Robbing fresh graves to supply the city’s anatomy schools and hospitals is a profitable business; illegal, reprehensible, ...Read Review