Viking
In Memoriam
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When war begins in 1914, Ellwood and Gaunt are seventeen, in their last year at their British boarding school. Almost immediately, their school newspaper ...Read Review
In the Upper Country
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In 1859, in an all-Black town in Canada West (modern Ontario), a hub for the Underground Railroad, a female journalist agrees to interview an ...Read Review
Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs Trilogy)
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In this novel set during the Hundred Years’ War (July 1346), the “dogs” of the title are a motley band of ten British soldiers, ...Read Review
Fire Season
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In 1889 Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, bored banker Barton Heydale plans to kill himself. But when he goes home to do the deed, a ...Read Review
The Young Accomplice
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A novel about architecture, ambition, crime and guilt. It takes place in the early 1950s, and is set mainly on the Surrey farm ...Read Review
Bad Relations
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In 1855 William Gale is cradling the head of his dead brother, far from home in the Crimean War. At home, his wife Alice ...Read Review
Horse: A Novel
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Brooks succeeds gloriously at creating a love letter to thoroughbred horses, racing, and the beauties of antebellum Kentucky, and passably well at creating ...Read Review
The Key In The Lock
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A gothic tale, set in rural Cornwall over two timelines. In the first, the narrator Ivy is trying to come to terms with ...Read Review
The Fortune Men
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‘Defend me for what? You can’t get me to worrying,’ says Mahmood Mattan, when offered legal representation after his arrest in Tiger’...Read Review
The Magician
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Tóibín’s biographical novel of Thomas Mann begins in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck in 1891, where Thomas, overshadowed in his ...Read Review
