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The Slaughterman’s Daughter
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Motal – an isolated town in the Pale of Settlement, Russia. 1894. Fanny Kreismann is only ten when she develops a fascination for her father’...Read Review
A Snake Lies Waiting: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. III
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China, 1200 or thereabouts. In this third volume in the series, earnest young martial artist Guo Jing is in a pickle. Together with two ...Read Review
The Archipelago of Another Life
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The novel takes the form of a story within a story, as Pavel Gartsev relates the bizarre world of the reservist Red Army ...Read Review
Madeleine
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Why did Englishman Henry Latymer at the age of twenty-eight so precipitately leave his promising career as an artist in France, living for ...Read Review
White Shadow
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Farmer and fisherwoman Ingrid’s life is hard, sometimes harsh, but she has freedom and independence on Barroy, a small island close to ...Read Review
The Oblique Place
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The author, who died in 2015 aged just 53, has left a profound literary achievement in this novel, which makes the reader regret her early ...Read Review
Equator
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Nebraska, 1871. Pete Ferguson is a murderer, army deserter, and is wanted for theft and arson. Changing his name to Billy Webb, he joins ...Read Review
The Office of Gardens and Ponds
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Set in Heian Japan, the book gives us two startlingly opposed worldviews – the imperial court is described in all its effete, rigid, exquisite ...Read Review
Katalin Street
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Set in Budapest, Hungary between 1934 and 1960, this is by no means conventional historical fiction. The plot consists of a series of disparate but ...Read Review
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
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James Buchan has written an erudite and highly readable life of John Law, the son of a master goldsmith in Edinburgh. He moved ...Read Review
