Portobello
Brewster
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Jon, Ray and Frank are high school buddies coming of age in the late 1960s in a small town in upstate New York. ...Read Review
The Picture Book
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‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ has a considerable following on TV as well-known people delve into family history. Author Jo Baker knows ...Read Review
The Tea Lords
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Haasse’s books have achieved classic status in her native Netherlands, and this is the first to be translated for 15 years. The Tea ...Read Review
Days of Grace
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Nora Lynch is sent to the countryside at the start of World War II. She is selected by Grace Rivers and her family ...Read Review
The Konkans
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Lawrence D’Sai is the firstborn son of a firstborn son, part of a line that stretches back generations. He’s also ...Read Review
Gregorius
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In 1905 Hjalmar Soderberg’s Dr Glas was published—a fictionalised journal of the murder of an obese clergyman in late 19th-century Stockholm by ...Read Review
The Incomplete Husband
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This is a study of loss and exile. Elena marries against the wishes of her family, and she and Ricardo dream of a ...Read Review
Secret
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This autobiographical novel tells the story of young Philippe’s childhood in post-war Paris. The sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the ...Read Review
Wintering
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In the late 1950s, bankrupt Jaguar salesman Jim Parker must start his life over again in a village near Glastonbury. He grudgingly accepts ...Read Review
The Visible World
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This is a book about a love triangle, one woman loved by two men. It should be tense and fraught with conflict. Instead ...Read Review
