John Murray
Peggy
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Many readers know the first and last chapters of Peggy Guggenheim’s life—that she was born into the wealthy Guggenheim family and ...Read Review
North Woods
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From the moment two forbidden lovers – the prospective wife of an abusive minister and a reported troublemaker she ironically met at church – flee ...Read Review
Every Rising Sun
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As a young teenager in 12th-century Persia, Shaherazade, daughter of Vizier Muhammad, witnesses the infidelity of the king’s wife. When she notifies ...Read Review
Promise
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A searing account of how racism reaches its long arm into all corners of American life, Griffiths’ first novel also honors the love ...Read Review
Mercury Pictures Presents
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This is a vast story which stretches from the mid-1930s in Italy to America during WW2. It tells the story of Mercury ...Read Review
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
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The luscious cover and tag-line give the impression that this is going to be an exciting popular-history read that will reveal to us ...Read Review
Caging Skies
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Like many Viennese boys of the late 1930s, Johannes Betzler joins the Hitler Youth, in which he takes great pride, and swallows the ...Read Review
The Wolf and the Watchman
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The year is 1793. In Stockholm, Sweden, a body is discovered in Larder Lake. Cecil Winge, a former prosecuting attorney suffering from consumption and ...Read Review
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Breakout of WWI
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Most of us have heard of the Great Escape of WW2, when 76 POWs tunnelled their way out of Stalag Luft 111 in 1943. WW1 also ...Read Review
Displaced
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In his afterword, the author declares that he wanted to describe Germany in the ‘time between the times’ at the end of WW2, ...Read Review
