Sceptre

The Widow and Her Hero

By Thomas Keneally - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

This book starts with the hero’s death and comes full circle. For the past sixty years Grace has been haunted by the ...Read Review

Rifling Paradise

By Jem Poster - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureLiterary

Charles Redbourne, middle-aged dilettante, leaves his English country estate in disgrace after his callous treatment of a discarded male love interest drives the ...Read Review

By the Grand Canal

By William Rivière - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

This novel, set in Venice following World War I, echoes the grief and disillusionment of the war years, and the anxiety that this ...Read Review

The Laments

By George Hagen - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

A baby is born to a quirky family in Rhodesia in the 1950s. His mother Julia was the terror of her private school. ...Read Review

Deafening

By Frances Itani - Published 2003

Genres:

Literary

Born into a large Irish family in Canada, Grania O’Neill has been deaf since childhood due to scarlet fever. Her loving grandmother ...Read Review

Miracle At St. Anna

By James McBride - Published 2002

Genres:

Literary

For those not old enough to remember overt racism, this story will reveal just how bad it was for the soldiers of the 92...Read Review