Virago
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
Sedition
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As a fan of K.M. Grant’s historical fiction for children, I was eager to read her adult debut. Set in London ...Read Review
At Break of Day
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Ho-hum, thinks the reader – yet another novel about the Great War. Misgivings increase when the story, starting on the morning of 1st July 1916 ...Read Review
The Engagements
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While perhaps no one remembers Mary Frances Gerety’s name, we all know that “A diamond is forever”. Frances created the inspired ad ...Read Review
In Diamond Square
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This classic Catalan novel was first published in 1962, and this is the third English translation, to mark the book’s fiftieth anniversary. Rodoreda ...Read Review
Blood and Beauty
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On the heels of an increased interest in the Borgia family, Dunant follows with her newest novel, an exploration of the House of ...Read Review
The Glass Ocean
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The Glass Ocean is a story told in hindsight by orphaned Carlotta Dell’orro, who tells of her birth through her parents’ story. ...Read Review
The Purple Shroud: A Novel of Empress Theodora
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Ah, Justinian and Theodora! Two giants of history who stood astride an empire mostly Greek that still thought of itself as “Rome.” Duffy ...Read Review
Park Lane
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This novel has its origins in Frances Osborne’s own family background, and an inevitable comparison to the TV series Downton Abbey will ...Read Review
The Red Chamber
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Pauline Chen brings new life to the Chinese classic work of literature, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, ...Read Review
