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The Adversary
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In the early 19th century in the remote coastal town of Mockbeggar in the Dominion of Newfoundland, a wedding is to take place ...Read Review
Fayne
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This is a difficult book to review, not least because it is so long by modern standards, although Victorian readers would not have ...Read Review
The Voyage of the Morning Light (US) / The Difference (CAN)
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In 1911, twelve-year-old Kay and her older half-sister, Thea, take a sea voyage from Nova Scotia to the South Pacific islands. The merchant ship, ...Read Review
Aria
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On a wintry night in 1953, Behrouz, a military truck driver, is walking home to the poorer, southern part of Tehran. He discovers and ...Read Review
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his ...Read Review
The Son of a Certain Woman
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It doesn’t take readers of award-winning author Wayne Johnston’s latest novel, The Son of a Certain Woman, to recognise all the ...Read Review
Once We Had a Country
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Set in 1972, Canadian author Robert McGill’s latest novel, Once We Had A Country, might just sneak into the definition of ‘historic fiction’ (...Read Review
My Ghosts
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It might be said that Canadian author Mary Swan’s latest novel, My Ghosts, isn’t for everyone. Readers, for example, who like ...Read Review
The Birth House
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This novel, already and deservedly a best-seller in Canada, tells the story of Dora Rare and her struggles to maintain a holistic, ...Read Review
Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear
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In this, the last of the Boudica quartet, the Boudica (“Bringer of Victory”) struggles to recover from a Roman flogging. If her people ...Read Review
