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Jane Steele
Lyndsay Faye has produced an audacious homage to Jane Eyre just in time for Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday. Unlike recent…
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen
Historian and biographer, Alison Weir, embarks on a new series of novels examining in turn the lives of each of…
Jane Steele
“Reader, I murdered him.” In this satirical riff on Jane Eyre, orphaned Jane Steele is governess to the ward of…
The Fatal Flame
Manhattan, 1848: Copper Timothy Wilde hates fires. His parents died in one, and a second conflagration, in 1845, scarred his…
The Silvered Heart
The Silvered Heart is Katherine Clements’ follow-up to her critically lauded debut, The Crimson Ribbon. With this new story she…
The Sunrise
1974 and Savvas, the ambitious owner of a luxury hotel in prosperous Famagusta, Cyprus, is greedy for more. Aphroditi is…
The Raven’s Head
The Raven’s Head is an intoxicating blend of history, mystery and magic, and Maitland’s storytelling is deft and detailed. Told…
The Vanishing Witch
Editors' choice
Set during the time of the Peasants’ Revolt, this novel expertly weaves different strands and plots together to create a…
The Final Sacrament
William Harley, Clarenceux, is Queen Elizabeth’s chief herald – and a Catholic. Though he serves his queen loyally, he hides…
The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai
There’s nothing like fiction set in 12th-century Buddhist Japan to shake up one’s notions about feminine strength and bravery. Kozaishō,…
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