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In the Upper Country

By Kai Thomas - Published 2023

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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)

By Dan Jones - Published 2022Published 2023

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AdventureMilitary

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

By Leyna Krow - Published 2022

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Literary

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

By Benjamin Wood - Published 2022

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Thriller

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

By Cressida Connolly - Published 2022

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Saga

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

By Geraldine Brooks - Published 2022

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Literary

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

By Beth Underdown - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Nadifa Mohamed - Published 2021

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Literary

‘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

By Colm Tóibín - Published 2021

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Biographical FictionLiterary

Tóibín’s biographical novel of Thomas Mann begins in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck in 1891, where Thomas, overshadowed in his ...Read Review

China Room

By Sunjeev Sahota - Published 2021

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Literary

Trauma and endurance form the complex legacy passed on by a young woman, trapped in a loveless marriage in Punjab in 1929, to her ...Read Review