Mariner Books

Shy Creatures

By Clare Chambers - Published 2024

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LiteraryMystery/Crime

Set in a 1960s London psychiatric hospital, Shy Creatures is the story of Helen, a thirty-something unmarried art therapist who becomes involved in ...Read Review

Burma Sahib

By Paul Theroux - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1922, 19-year-old Eric Blair, upon graduating Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. It is later when his career turns to writing ...Read Review

The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By Ellen Baker - Published 2024

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On a cold day in November 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s single mother places Cecily in a Chicago orphanage. Mother promises to return and ...Read Review

A Council of Dolls

By Mona Susan Power - Published 2023

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A story told through the eyes of three young girls, each a generation apart, struggling with the impacts of colonialism on Yanktonai Dakota ...Read Review

Homecoming

By Kate Morton - Published 2023

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Large old houses, families haunted by history, and suspenseful multi-stranded plots that reveal shocking truths: these are Kate Morton hallmarks, and nobody writes ...Read Review

Stealing

By Margaret Verble - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This short, compassionately written, and powerful novel is told in the unquenchable voice of Karen “Kit” Crockett, who is raised by her white ...Read Review

Jacqueline in Paris

By Ann Mah - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In the fall of 1949, 20-year-old socialite Jacqueline Bouvier sets sail for France with a group of Smith College students to study abroad for ...Read Review

An Unlasting Home

By Mai Al-Nakib - Published 2022

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In 2013, Sara Al-Ameed, a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, is accused of blasphemy and arrested. Eleven years ago, Sara had returned home from ...Read Review

How to Find Your Way in the Dark

By Derek B. Miller - Published 2022

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As the Second World War looms, a young Jewish boy in the United States, Sheldon Horowitz, loses both his parents, one after the ...Read Review

The Midnight Hour (The Brighton Mysteries)

By Elly Griffiths - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

England 1965. Nonagenarian ex-impresario Bert Billington is found poisoned at his retirement home, and in classic who-done-it style, there are enough faces in the ...Read Review