Penguin Press
The Fraud
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It is pleasant to have a historical novel written primarily about a historical novelist. Zadie Smith has made her first foray into historical ...Read Review
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Scholar Andrew Delbanco argues convincingly that slavery is the basis of America being divided since its founding. (“Slavery was in the understanding that ...Read Review
The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba
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The French emperor, Napoleon, conducts a massive campaign of conquest and seizes almost half of Europe. Then he is defeated and dies a ...Read Review
A Good Hard Look
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Flannery O’Connor is one of the great figures of 20th-century American literature, an icon of Southern fiction whose life was cut tragically ...Read Review
The Creator’s Map
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The violent death of an aristocratic former Fascist and Nazi sympathiser in 1952 is the catalyst for this mystery story set among Spanish refugees ...Read Review
A Vengeful Longing
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This is the sequel to the highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, the first of Morris’s books to feature the investigating magistrate Porfiry ...Read Review
