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The Bewitching
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This 16th-century tale tells the true story of a woman accused by her neighbours of witchcraft. Visiting her new neighbours in the Fenland ...Read Review
The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
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Unreliable narrators are a tricky device. In The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, the protagonist, Elle Ranier, tells her story of moving from ...Read Review
Red Milk
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A dead man is found on a train at Cheltenham Spa. Policemen identify the man as Gunnar Pálsson Kampen from Reykjavik. They ...Read Review
The Dickens Boy
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In 1868, Edward Dickens, the tenth, ne’er-do-well child of the famous author, emigrates to Australia at age sixteen to learn the sheep business. ...Read Review
The Book of Science and Antiquities
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Award-winning documentary filmmaker Shelby Apple is approaching the end of his days after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2015. As he contemplates his ...Read Review
The Valentine House
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The Valentine house, a wooden chalet overlooking the valley of Hext in the French Alps, is given the Greek name “Arete” (meaning excellence ...Read Review
Madness Is Better than Defeat
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This book opens in 1938 Manhattan, where a wrestler struggles with an octopus in a water-filled tank. From there we quickly move on to ...Read Review
Walking Wounded
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This is a shocking book, and I hope you will read it and be suitably shocked. It is set in a military psychiatric ...Read Review
The Brittle Star
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This is a dazzling debut about a young man in 1860s California. John Evert Burn is 16 when his ranch is attacked, his mother ...Read Review
The Fatal Tree
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London, the 1720s. The underworld here is known as ‘Romeville’, while the scaffold at Tyburn is ‘The Fatal Tree’. This is the story ...Read Review
