Sceptre
The Daughters of Mars
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The First World War has become a staple of recent fiction. Thomas Keneally, in this epic novel told from an Australian perspective, enables ...Read Review
Lucky Bunny
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The title of Jill Dawson’s seventh novel, Lucky Bunny, is ironic. The white bunny that Queenie Dove receives as a present from ...Read Review
The House of Rumour
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At first sight this is a conspiracy thriller, although more ‘literary’ than most, as one would expect from Sceptre. It has the usual ...Read Review
Pure
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Pure is a novel about the clearance of the cemetery at Les Innocents in Paris in 1785 and the transportation of the human remains ...Read Review
Nightwoods
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One of my favorite lines in Nightwoods is: “Luce was not much maternal.” She is young, single, and childless, but by the time ...Read Review
Rules of Civility
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As a debut novel, Rules of Civility is a tour de force. Breathtaking in its capture of 1938 New York City, both its ...Read Review
Mr Rosenblum’s List
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All Jack Rosenblum wants is to be English. He and his wife Sadie, and one-year-old daughter, disembarked at Harwich from Nazi Germany in 1937. ...Read Review
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell has written an historical novel which equals if not surpasses the originality of his previous prize-listed works including Cloud Atlas and ...Read Review
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell has written an historical novel which equals if not surpasses the originality of his previous prize-listed works including Cloud Atlas and ...Read Review
The People’s Train
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This is a fictionalised biography of Artem Sergiev, prisoner in pre-revolutionary Russia who fled to Australia in 1911. In Thomas Keneally’s hands the ...Read Review
