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Little Wild
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The late 1930s remain fertile ground for fiction, yet Little Wild sidesteps familiar international tensions to explore the quieter, more unsettling terrain of ...Read Review
Gentle Things
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Aldgate, London, 1668. Lucy North, the late-teenage daughter of a widowed tavern landlady, is a frank and engaging narrator. Initially we have a rather ...Read Review
The Repentants
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Scotland, 1790, and Florrie Aitken—a wealthy but emotionally neglected housewife—strides out, determined to experience ‘pure bliss’. Unfortunately, just at the moment of ...Read Review
Rules of the Heart
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Based on her 17-year love story, Harriet (Spencer) Ponsonby, sister to Georgiana (Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, relates her experience in her own ...Read Review
No Friend to This House
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In her latest retelling of the Greek myths, Natalie Haynes turns to Jason & the Argonauts and the Medea story. The tale of ...Read Review
The Art of a Lie
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Ice cream, murder, impersonation and deception – a lot of deception. June 1749. Hannah Cole, proprietor of a cake shop in Picadilly, is newly widowed ...Read Review
The Mourning Necklace
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Author Kate Foster taps into a rich seam when she takes on the true story of Maggie Dickson, a woman hanged in 18th-century ...Read Review
Mere
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In the 10th-century Norfolk Fens, a remote community of nuns and peasants struggles to survive a harsh winter and a harsh abbess. This ...Read Review
The Map of Bones (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
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This is the final book in Kate Mosse’s four-book series The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the fate of a wealthy French Huguenot ...Read Review
The Map of Bones (The Joubert Family Chronicles, 4)
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The Map of Bones is the concluding novel of Kate Mosse’s series The Joubert Family Chronicles, which follows the fortunes of a ...Read Review
