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A True Novel

By Minac Mizumura - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

Japanese readers fell in love with 19th-century western literature because it strove to transcend daily life to focus on the “ideal” existence. However, ...Read Review

This House is Haunted

By John Boyne - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving, on a whim she moves ...Read Review

The Reservoir

By John Milliken Thompson - Published 2011

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Based upon an old Richmond, Virginia court case, The Reservoir is a complex first novel that is a simmering blend of Southern tragedy, ...Read Review

Galore

By Michael Crummey - Published 2011

Genres:

LiterarySaga

“Newfoundland seemed too severe and formidable, too provocative, too extravagant and singular and harrowing to be real. He half expected to never lay ...Read Review

The Wrong Blood

By Manuel de Lope - Published 2010

Genres:

LiterarySaga

After reading this book, I found myself agreeing with the blurb on the dust jacket – a rare event. In essence, it is about ...Read Review

The Quickening

By Michelle Hoover - Published 2010

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Michelle Hoover’s debut novel is noteworthy. Based loosely on a family history written by her great-grandmother, Hoover gives a moving account of ...Read Review

The Last Rendezvous

By Anne Plantagenet - By Willard Wood - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Although this novel of early 19th-century France may have been a prize-winner in its original French, it is a slow, hard slog in ...Read Review

The Last Rendezvous

By Anne Plantagenet (trans. Willard Wood) - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Although this novel of early 19th-century France may have been a prize-winner in its original French, it is a slow, hard slog in ...Read Review

The Glass Room

By Simon Mawer - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

This novel’s setting is an ultra-modern house, built in the late 1920s in what is now the Czech Republic. The characters are ...Read Review

The Book of Fathers

By Miklos Vamos (trans. Peter Sherwood) - Published 2007Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

Spanning 300 years and twelve generations of the Csillag family, Vamos’s saga represents the signs of the zodiac, encompassing what he sees as ...Read Review