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How to Stop Time
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This is a book about time travel, but not travel back in time. The hero, known in the present as Tom Hazard, travels ...Read Review
A Column of Fire
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This engrossing book is the third novel in Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge series. The first two were worldwide best sellers and the third ...Read Review
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
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Lowe’s new book picks up where his previous one, the excellent Savage Continent, left off. Moving beyond the devastation in Europe in ...Read Review
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors
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The Templars gives you what it says on the cover: a narrative history of the Knights Templar, and it is detailed, scholarly, lengthy ...Read Review
Wolf on a String
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This historical novel takes place at the end of 1599, during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Christian Stern comes to Prague ...Read Review
The Lost Book of the Holy Grail
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Dan Brown meets Anthony Trollope! Once again a middle-aged academic searches for the Holy Grail, helped by a younger female assistant (less cerebral, ...Read Review
The House of Names
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In his eleventh novel, Tóibín retells the myth of the House of Atreus and Queen Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband, Agamemnon, ...Read Review
The Witchfinder’s Sister
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It’s 1645 in England as Alice Hopkins, a lost and penniless widow, returns to her brother Matthew’s home. Her once-shy brother has ...Read Review
The Lost Book of the Grail
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Arthur Prescott’s life follows highly predictable rhythms: some irritating, some stimulating, some soothing. A junior lecturer at Barchester (yes, that Barchester) University, ...Read Review
The Dark Days Pact
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Picking up the narrative in 1812, just a few weeks after the end of the preceding book, The Dark Days Pact jumps right back ...Read Review