William Heinemann
Matrix: A Novel
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England, 1158, and young ‘Marie who comes from France’ rides through a cold, damp valley towards the royal abbey where she has been appointed ...Read Review
Widespread Panic
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Freddy Otash, ex-marine drill instructor in WWII and all-around tough guy, becomes an LA cop. He and his fellow police surveil, arrest and ...Read Review
The Liar’s Dictionary
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Split between the 19th century and present day, this is a delightfully exuberant, playful novel that is difficult to categorise or briefly summarise. ...Read Review
This Storm
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This Storm is set in the wake of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Los Angeles reels behind the shock of the attack on Pearl Harbour, ...Read Review
Snowdrift, and Other Stories
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This book is a collection of the author’s Regency short stories, eleven of which were previously published under the title Pistols for ...Read Review
The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
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The eponymous house is a small wooden cottage located on the banks of Groß Glienicke Lake to the west of Berlin. It was ...Read Review
The Cauliflower®
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This is a historical novel like no other I have read. The author herself suggests that the book is more a collage, with ...Read Review
The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre
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In 2000, Jan T. Gross published an account of a massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in eastern Poland, Jedwabne, in ...Read Review
The Shore
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The Shore is a collection of barrier islands set in the Chesapeake Bay, and also a collection of various stories about the people ...Read Review
Perfidia
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Four Japanese Americans are murdered on the day before Pearl Harbor, opening a book which could be called a police procedural when police ...Read Review
