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The Right Hand of the Sun

By Anita Mason - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

What is the most dramatic and extraordinary adventure ever recorded? My vote must go to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico in 1521, when 500 Spaniards ...Read Review

Sea of Poppies

By Amitav Ghosh - Published 2008

Genres:

Epic

An epic tale of the opium trade in 1838 and its far-reaching effects, Sea of Poppies is a book of amazing skill and scope. ...Read Review

The Glimmer Palace

By Beatrice Colin - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

It’s impossible not to wish Lilly Nelly Aphrodite well. The protagonist of The Glimmer Palace is a spirited, resourceful, and keen-eyed child ...Read Review

The Maze of Cadiz

By Aly Monroe - Published 2008

Genres:

Thriller

Aly Monroe’s debut novel launches the career of Peter Cotton, British Intelligence officer, which Monroe intends to follow through the post-war years ...Read Review

The Right Hand of the Sun

By Anita Mason - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

What is the most dramatic and extraordinary adventure ever recorded?  My vote must go to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico in 1521, when 500 Spaniards ...Read Review

Sarah’s Key

By Tatiana de Rosnay - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

Genres:

Paris, 1942: ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski locks her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard to keep him safe when the French police come to arrest ...Read Review

The Creator’s Map

By Emilio Calderón - By Katherine Silver (trans.) - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

The violent death of an aristocratic former Fascist and Nazi sympathiser in 1952 is the catalyst for this mystery story set among Spanish refugees ...Read Review

Pilgrim: The Greatest Crusade

By James Jackson - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

In 1212, crusaders march to the Holy Land in order to wrest it back from the Saracens, who are now in control of all ...Read Review

Hangman Blind

By Cassandra Clark - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This first novel in a new mystery series introduces Sister Hildegard, a Cistercian nun who wants nothing more than to find a suitable ...Read Review

A Voyage Long and Strange : Rediscovering the New World

By Tony Horwitz - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

  Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with a penchant for history. He also likes to re-examine all things American. Here ...Read Review