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Canvey Island
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Canvey Island is a six-mile by three-mile piece of reclaimed land in the Thames estuary just off the south Essex coast. It was ...Read Review
Homespun
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First published novel this may be, but it reads like the work of an accomplished novelist. The prose is tight, word choice exact, ...Read Review
The Open Door
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Constance Fenimore Woolson, the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, was a popular novelist and travel writer in the latter half of the 19th ...Read Review
Farewell, Shanghai
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In the late 1930s, Jews were fleeing Germany and other European countries; in response to both propaganda and local politics, more destinations began ...Read Review
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
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Upon occasion a reviewer is familiar with the source material for a fictional biographical novel, and therefore dreads the transformation from actual to ...Read Review
Unconfessed
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“I say, life is a disease women get from men.” Readers of Unconfessed will understand Sila Van den Kapp’s misandry. She is ...Read Review
Paper Kisses: A True Love Story
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“I was not looking for stories when I found Rudolph Kaufmann’s first letters to Ingeborg Magnusson – in May, 1991, at a stamp auction ...Read Review
Why She Married Him
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Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this novel begins with the marriage of Nina Schavranski to Abraham Podselver, an ardent ...Read Review
Hosack’s Folly: A Novel of Old New York
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Biographical FictionMystery/CrimeRomance
Set in the 1820s, Hosack’s Folly is an engaging tale that combines themes of political, journalistic, and mercantile skullduggery with a gentle ...Read Review