Harvill Secker

A Treacherous Paradise

By Henning Mankell - Published 2013

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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

Ratlines

By Stuart Neville - Published 2013

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Thriller

Ireland, in the summer of 1963, is preparing for a visit from U.S. President John F. Kennedy when a series of murders draws ...Read Review

Philida

By Andre Brink - Published 2012Published 2013

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Literary

Philida is a knitting girl, a slave in the household of Cornelis Brink whose job is to knit clothes for the family. She ...Read Review

Seven Houses in France

By Bernard Atxaga - By Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) - Published 2012

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Literary

The Belgian occupation of the Congo was one of the bloodiest, cruelest events in modern history, a fact reflected in the title of ...Read Review

Raised from the Ground

By José Saramago - By Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) - Published 2012

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LiterarySaga

Nobel Prize Laureate José Saramago’s (1922-2010) most autobiographical novel opens with the statement “I was born in a family of landless peasants.” ...Read Review

Beautiful Lies

By Clare Clark - Published 2012

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London, 1887. The country is absorbed by Queen Victoria’s Jubilee and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show, with an economic recession causing ...Read Review

HHhH

By Laurent Binet - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2012

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Literary

HHhH (“Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich,” that is, “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”) tells the thrilling story of Slovak Jozef Gabćik and ...Read Review

The White Shadow

By Andrea Eames - Published 2012

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Literary

According to my library book group, readers either liked or hated The White Shadow. I can understand that. It is set in Rhodesia (...Read Review

Cain

By José Saramago - By Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) - Published 2011

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Literary

This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So while the author was ...Read Review

The Flowers of War

By Geling Yan - By Nicky Harman (trans.) - Published 2012

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In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as a safe, neutral zone. ...Read Review