Hutchinson
Last Days in Cleaver Square
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This is a novel of the Spanish Civil War, or more accurately, the memories of the traumatic times that Francis McNulty ponders on. ...Read Review
Snow Country
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This is a sequel to Faulks’s 2005 novel Human Traces. Given that there has been a 16-year hiatus between the two books, it ...Read Review
The Dangerous Kingdom of Love
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England, 1613, and Francis Bacon travels to the royal palace at Theobalds, to be told by King James that he will be elevated to ...Read Review
The Lincoln Highway
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Huckleberry Finn, make way for valiant Emmett Watson. Also, for his bookish little brother Billy, for Duchess, the fatal troublemaker, and for world-wary ...Read Review
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
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Marc Morris’s new book is ambitious in scope, sweeping through six centuries of Anglo-Saxon history. It starts by talking about two of ...Read Review
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
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London 1763, and brothers Edgar and Benjamin Bowen are to embark upon The Grand Tour to mainland Europe. They are close in age, around ...Read Review
Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
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Writing a sequel can be a difficult exercise, more than seems obvious from a cursory consideration of the issue; the writer needs to ...Read Review
V2
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Set in 1944, with the war in Europe going badly for Hitler, this new historical thriller by Robert Harris follows two main characters. Rudi ...Read Review
The German Heiress (US) / Finding Clara (UK)
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Nearly two years after the war, Clara Falkenberg, the daughter and surviving heir to her family’s ironworks factory, has taken on an ...Read Review
Swan Song
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As it explores the motives behind author Truman Capote’s decision to write a roman à clef betraying the secrets of his longtime confidantes, ...Read Review
