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The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
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Juliet Barker has impeccable credentials to write a definitive history of the Brontës. As curator to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, ...Read Review
The Time of the Wolf: A Novel of Medieval England
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The landmark year 1066 has given nourishment to many historical novelists, including now the first-time historical novel author James Wilde. (Wilde is the pen ...Read Review
The Werewolf of Paris
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Werewolves are enjoying a fine romp across current literature and cinema. Though the filming techniques were cheesy, watching Lon Chaney transform from wolf ...Read Review
Shooting Victoria
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Shooting Victoria is not just another biography of the illustrious queen or a history about the eponymous era she generated. Murphy takes the ...Read Review
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants
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In her latest book, biographer Alexandra Popoff profiles six literary spouses—Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, and ...Read Review
Spartacus
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Historical novels, especially those dealing with well-known events, lack suspense. As we watch the slave army of Spartacus defeat one Roman army after ...Read Review
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
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The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that century ...Read Review
Magic Words
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I reached the end of this book expecting to find out that most of the story and characters were fictional, but Kolpan’s ...Read Review
Death in August
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Set in Florence in 1963, this murder mystery offers the delights and peculiarities of Italy. As the city melts in August heat, Inspector Bordelli ...Read Review
Hawkwood
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The Bow Street Runners, generally accepted as London’s first professional police force, was founded in 1749 and operated in London until 1839, when the ...Read Review