Virago
A Boy in Winter
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A small, unnamed town in Ukraine on the periphery of extensive marshlands in the autumn of 1941 is under German occupation. One foggy morning, ...Read Review
In the Name of the Family
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Sarah Dunant is obsessed with the Borgias. But it’s a good obsession. The Borgias are the family we love to hate. They’...Read Review
London Lies Beneath
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The year is 1912, and three young friends join the 2nd Walworth Scouts in search of adventures beyond the East End of London: Tom, ...Read Review
Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
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In 1889, the painter Vincent Van Gogh is expelled from the Provençal town of Arles after being caught walking through the town with ...Read Review
An Unrestored Woman and Other Stories
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This was the first time I have encountered stories relating to the period of the Partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, and what ...Read Review
Rush Oh!
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Australians may be familiar with the shore whaling enterprises that operated in Twofold Bay, New South Wales, until the early 20th century. A ...Read Review
Early One Morning
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In 1939, as families are being deported from an Italian Jewish ghetto on their way to almost certain death, a mother on the train ...Read Review
Circling the Sun
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Paula McLain, author of the highly successful novel The Paris Wife, returns in Circling the Sun with another fictional biography. This is story ...Read Review
Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
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Taking us from 1925 to 1941, this novel of Virginia Woolf (whose given name was Adeline) is quietly fascinating. Written in a style reminiscent of ...Read Review
The Paying Guests
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Frances Wray, in her mid-twenties, lives in genteel poverty with her widowed mother in a large house in Camberwell, London. It is 1922, just ...Read Review
