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Bright Air Black
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The familiar Greek myth of Jason and Medea is retold in Bright Air Black. In brilliant, evocative prose, the world of the Bronze ...Read Review
The Poets’ Daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge
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In this riveting and absorbing book, Katie Waldegrave examines the intertwining lives of Dora Wordsworth, daughter of the great Romantic poet, William, and ...Read Review
In the Kingdom of Men
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Gin McPhee, an orphan raised in poverty by her strict Methodist grandfather, hastily weds her sweetheart Mason on finding herself pregnant. She loses ...Read Review
The Norman Conquest
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In starting his account long before 1066 and ending it with the death of William the Conqueror, Marc Morris (author of Castle and A ...Read Review
The Little Shadows
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Canadian writer Marina Endicott’s novel is set in Canada around the time of the First World War. It tells the story of ...Read Review
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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Surely the whole world knows by now that this novel is an Oprah pick. I have never used television to choose my novels, ...Read Review
London’s Sinful Secret: The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London’s Georgian Age
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Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank’s newest book is a lengthy but fascinating examination of a not-so-secret aspect of Georgian London: the sex industry. ...Read Review
