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Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Weird Sisters (The Prefect’s Adventures, 3)

By Olga Wojtas - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureTime-slip

At fifty-something, Shona has had a top-notch education and is an accomplished martial artist, linguist, and musician.  Most women would be proud of ...Read Review

Case Study

By Graeme Macrae Burnet - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

An author researching a notorious and now-forgotten British psychotherapist unexpectedly receives a series of notebooks written by a former patient. Thus begins Graeme ...Read Review

The Call of the Cormorant

By Donald S. Murray - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Subtitled “An Unreliable Biography,” this indeed tells the story of a most unreliable and slippery artist, Karl Einarsson. Born in Iceland, he grows ...Read Review

The Green Lady

By Sue Lawrence - Published 2022

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In late 16th- and early 17th-century Scotland, Alexander Seton had the most impeccable connections: godson to Mary, Queen of Scots, guardian to her ...Read Review

The Amber Seeker (The Stone Stories)

By Mandy Haggith - Published 2019

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Set in 320 B.C., The Amber Seeker is the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Walrus Mutterer (reviewed in HNR 86). The novel is ...Read Review

The Walrus Mutterer (The Stone Stories)

By Mandy Haggith - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Set in 320 BC, The Walrus Mutterer is a gripping, haunting and, at times, visceral novel. Rian, a young apprentice healer, is wrenched from ...Read Review

The Posy Ring

By Catherine Czerkawska - Published 2018

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The Posy Ring is the first in the Annals of Flowerfield series, a spinoff from the author’s previous novel The Curiosity Cabinet. ...Read Review

The Jewel

By Catherine Czerkawska - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

When Jeany Armour first meets Rab Burns in the 1780s Scottish town of Mauchline, she hears he is “a lad best avoided by ...Read Review

Paris Kiss

By Maggie Ritchie - Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Being unfamiliar with the writer, it was the subject matter, the story of Camille Claudel and August Rodin, which drew me to Paris ...Read Review