Pantheon
A Reckoning
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In Spalding’s excellent fifth novel (after The Purchase, 2013), John, a white man, and Bry, a black man, struggle with the onus of ...Read Review
A Boy in Winter
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A small, unnamed town in Ukraine on the periphery of extensive marshlands in the autumn of 1941 is under German occupation. One foggy morning, ...Read Review
Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait
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When I first saw this door-stopper of a biography I reached for my diary to search out a good stretch of time in ...Read Review
There Your Heart Lies
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In 1937, a year into the Spanish Civil War, New Yorkers Marian and Russell are on board the SS Normandie on their way to ...Read Review
War and Turpentine
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Classified as fiction, this fascinating book seems to be a hybrid of memoir, biography and fiction. The author’s subject is his grandfather, ...Read Review
The Stargazer’s Sister
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Carrie Brown’s seventh novel, The Stargazer’s Sister, is the richly-told tale of Caroline Herschel, sister of the famous astronomer, William Herschel, ...Read Review
Carry Me
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Before the First World War, young Billy Lange is captivated by a family friend, Karin Weinbrenner. In the novel’s opening lines, he ...Read Review
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
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The beginning of the novel is somewhat ominously familiar: a perfect English setting in the early years of the 20th century, which is ...Read Review
The Empire of the Senses
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The years leading up to World War II provide the setting for this powerful, engrossing debut novel exploring themes of duty and love, ...Read Review
How to Be Both
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This unusual novel is memorable as well as lyrical. Smith tells the story of a Renaissance artist and a 21st-century teenager who find ...Read Review