Picador
Venus, Vanishing
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Venus, Vanishing begins in Berlin in 1927. Hannah Sherman has run away from home to avoid marriage and to pursue her dream of becoming ...Read Review
A Private Man
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David Fletcher commits himself to God and the Catholic priesthood for life, training in a seminary in Rome and savoring the rituals of ...Read Review
A Thread of Light
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From the cover and the blurb, one would expect this to be another story of the London Blitz, celebrating the fortitude, resilience and ...Read Review
Dear Miss Lake (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
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It is July 1944, and the war in Europe is limping towards its inevitable conclusion. The London-based staff of the weekly magazine Woman’s ...Read Review
The Paris Express
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Anyone who has ever had the joy of riding a steam locomotive passenger train will love Emma Donoghue’s latest novel about the ...Read Review
Rooms for Vanishing
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Rooms for Vanishing is the story of a family of Viennese Jews torn apart by the Anschluss. Nadler tells their stories through the ...Read Review
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
