Viking
The Sapphire Widow
The breathtaking scenery of Ceylon is the true hero of this novel, as the descriptions of its verdant hills, turquoise…
The Game of Hope
At the close of the French Revolution, fifteen-year-old Hortense de Beauharnais—step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte—is attending Madame Campan’s Institute for Girls,…
The Silent Companions
Ghost stories are having a revival at present, and Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions, set in the 19th century, is a worthy newcomer to…
Mrs. Osmond
Editors' choice
Isabel Osmond (née Archer) has disobeyed her husband, Gilbert, and left Rome to visit her dying cousin in England. After…
Winter Sisters
In Robin Oliveira’s follow-up to My Name is Mary Sutter, it is fourteen years after the Civil War, and Albany,…
The Maze at Windermere
Editors' choice
Five stories ebb and flow, anchored by their location: Newport, Rhode Island. In the present day, a washed-up tennis player’s…
How to Stop Time
This is a book about time travel, but not travel back in time. The hero, known in the present as…
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors
The Templars gives you what it says on the cover: a narrative history of the Knights Templar, and it is…
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
Lowe’s new book picks up where his previous one, the excellent Savage Continent, left off. Moving beyond the devastation in…
A Column of Fire
This engrossing book is the third novel in Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge series. The first two were worldwide best sellers and…
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