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Briefly, A Delicious Life

By Nell Stevens - Published 2022

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Nell Stevens’ first novel is told in the voice of a young woman, Blanca, who has spent centuries haunting a monastery in Mallorca. ...Read Review

Trust

By Hernan Diaz - Published 2022

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EpicLiterary

Pulitzer finalist Diaz’s brilliantly layered epic unfolds through a quartet of accounts, each of which adds new meaning to the ones that ...Read Review

Haven

By Emma Donoghue - Published 2022

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Literary

The medieval monastic ideal of ora et labora (prayer and work) makes for a surprisingly compelling and suspenseful adventure in the hands of ...Read Review

Devotion

By Hannah Kent - Published 2022

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Literary

Devotion starts as a beautifully written historical novel, set in Prussia in the 1830s. Hanne is an outsider to her close-knit, highly religious ...Read Review

The God of that Summer

By Ralf Rothmann - By Shaun Whiteside (trans.) - Published 2022

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Literary

Originally written in German, this is an intriguing insight into the final months of the Second World War in Europe through the eyes ...Read Review

The Dance Tree

By Kiran Millwood Hargrave - Published 2022

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Literary

Strasbourg, in the long hot summer of 1518. A woman starts to dance in the market square. The dance is relentless, and soon she ...Read Review

The Colony of Good Hope

By Kim Leine - By Martin Aitken (trans.) - Published 2022

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Literary

When the King of Denmark colonises Greenland in 1728, he forcibly marries military prisoners to street women, then sends them to service a settlement ...Read Review

Circus of Wonders

By Elizabeth Macneal - Published 2022

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Victorian England, 1860s. Nell’s already troubled young life is further ripped apart when her father sells her to Jasper Jupiter—the man ...Read Review

Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles 2)

By AJ Pearce - Published 2021

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Saga

This charmer of a book is a sequel to Pearce’s bestselling debut novel, Dear Mrs. Bird, and it’s equally delightful. Undaunted ...Read Review

Circus of Wonders

By Elizabeth Macneal - Published 2021

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Set in the 1860s, when the craze for circuses, and particularly “human wonders”, was booming, Macneal’s second novel explores this glamorous, tawdry ...Read Review