Two Roads

Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter

By Emma Soames (ed.) - By Mary Churchill - Published 2022

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Nonfiction

For anyone interested in World War II (and who isn’t?), opening this book is like opening a treasure chest. Having read Erik ...Read Review

The Year Without Summer

By Guinevere Glasfurd - Published 2021

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Literary

In April 1815, Mount Tambora erupted on Sunbawa, killing as many as 12,000 islanders. Glasfurd places this eruption, still known as the most lethal in ...Read Review

Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley

By Annabel Abbs - Published 2018

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Biographical Fiction

In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again ...Read Review

The Butcher’s Hook

By Janet Ellis - Published 2016

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Janet Ellis has written a startling and original historical novel in The Butcher’s Hook. The smart, astute and fascinating heroine and mesmerising ...Read Review

The Words in My Hand

By Guinevere Glasfurd - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

The Words in My Hand, the debut novel from Guinevere Glasfurd, tells the story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in the 17th ...Read Review

Church of Marvels

By Leslie Parry - Published 2015

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Literary

This is a book of hate and violence. Starting in a fairground on New York’s Coney Island in 1895, a mother and her ...Read Review

At the Water’s Edge

By Sara Gruen - Published 2015

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Maddie lives life to the fullest in 1945, partying continuously with her wealthy friends and getting herself involved in escapades with her husband, Ellis, ...Read Review

Love & Treasure

By Ayelet Waldman - Published 2014

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Saga

At the end of WWII, American soldier Jack Wiseman, a Jew, is assigned to look after a trainload of “items” shipped from Hungary ...Read Review

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

By Nancy Horan - Published 2014

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As in Loving Frank, Horan has again re-imagined life with a famous man through his love interest. American Fanny Osbourne leaves her cad ...Read Review

The Stockholm Octavo

By Karen Engelmann - Published 2012

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The Stockholm Octavo is set in 18th-century Stockholm against the background of the last years of Sweden’s Golden Age and the spread ...Read Review