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The Burial Plot
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After stellar success with The Doll Factory and Circus of Wonders, Macneal continues with a novel set once again in the Victorian era ...Read Review
Whale Fall
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In 1938, as Europe appears to be on the brink of another war, a beached whale is washed up on a fictional, nameless island ...Read Review
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge
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After their parents died, Maude and Constance Horton were raised by their grandfather and grew up helping in his apothecary shop in London. ...Read Review
My Beloved Life
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Amitava Kumar’s novel actually traces three lives. Jadu is born to impoverished Indian villagers in 1934, the year of a devastating earthquake. Through ...Read Review
Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
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Mrs. Porter Calling is the latest addition to AJ Pearce’s humorous, touching Emmy Lake Chronicles, and it fully lives up to its ...Read Review
Learned by Heart
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Donoghue’s biographical novel of the real-life Anne Lister and Eliza Raine focuses on Raine’s story. We meet the fourteen-year-old girls when ...Read Review
An Honourable Exit
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This history of French commercial and military activity in Indo China (later Vietnam) is presented as a novel, but to cover the period ...Read Review
Sparrow
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Somewhere in Britannia, in the dying days of the Roman Empire, an equally decaying man recalls his youth. He names himself Jacob, but ...Read Review
The World and All That It Holds
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The narrative territory of The World and All That It Holds stretches from modern Ukraine to Shanghai and encompasses armed conflicts from the ...Read Review
The House of Fortune
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Amsterdam, 1705: Eighteen years have passed since the events recounted in Burton’s The Miniaturist (2014). In this novel it is Thea Brandt, niece of ...Read Review
