Harvill Secker
A Rising Man
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Calcutta in 1919: Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective, has arrived in Calcutta to head up a new post in the police ...Read Review
Sudden Death
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This is a novel which is gloriously and provocatively impossible to classify. If the author did not himself refer to it as a ...Read Review
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
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The beginning of the novel is somewhat ominously familiar: a perfect English setting in the early years of the 20th century, which is ...Read Review
Little Aunt Crane
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Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, sixteen-year-old Tatsuru flees the mass suicides of Japanese communities in Manchuria and is sold into slavery to ...Read Review
The Last Bookaneer
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Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, has created a unique literary adventure. For over a century, non-restrictive copyright laws have allowed the ...Read Review
We That Are Left
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This is Clare Clark’s fifth novel – all have been historical tales reviewed by the HNS – and this is another engagingly narrated story. ...Read Review
West
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This novel is mostly set in a West Berlin transit hostel in the late 1970s. The inmates, a motley group, have sought asylum ...Read Review
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Occasionally there are books published which simply demand the reader to take a new look on life. This is one – the reader may ...Read Review
Back to Back
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The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and brother and sister Thomas and Ella are growing up ...Read Review
A Treacherous Paradise
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The famed author of the popular Kurt Wallender series takes a real-life historical tidbit and expands it into a meaty novel of colonialism, ...Read Review