Michael Joseph
Henry Tudor Must Die
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Lina (Catalina of Aragon) fakes her death in 1536 and joins the Hellebore Sisterhood, whose mission is to protect women suspected of witchcraft, those ...Read Review
The Secret Thread
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How do you document a life? Each artifact – a hand-sewn yellow cotton dress, a vintage quilt, a chandelier droplet – holds memories and meaning. ...Read Review
Inferno (The Nero Trilogy)
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The final chapter of Iggulden’s Nero trilogy provides a fittingly poignant conclusion to the story of one of Rome’s most hated ...Read Review
Elizabeth and Marilyn
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Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Baker) met only once, in 1956, and Moylan’s compelling tale relates how this unusual ...Read Review
The Midnight Carousel
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McLynn tells the captivating story of Maisie Marlowe, from her childhood in 1910 in a repugnant foster home in England, to her life as ...Read Review
Sinners
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Any internet inquiry into Beatrice Cenci will tell you she was repeatedly raped by her father. Whether true or not, Sinners edges around ...Read Review
Love, Sex & Frankenstein
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In 1816, Mary Shelley famously visited Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby William, Mary’s stepsister Claire, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’...Read Review
Tyrant (The Nero Trilogy)
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Nero, the first novel in Iggulden’s trilogy set in first-century Rome, ends with a marriage proposal. Tyrant, the second book, opens where ...Read Review
This Cursed House
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Sandeen’s Southern gothic horror, set near New Orleans in 1962, vividly swirls with ghosts and Black history, while acknowledging how some passing families ...Read Review
Nero
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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
Rome, AD 37, and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, in a furious temper, tacks horses for his chariot and argues with his pregnant wife. He storms ...Read Review
