Amanda Cockrell

Menewood (The Hild Sequence)

By Nicola Griffith - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Menewood is a sequel to Griffith’s earlier novel, Hild, and the reader will get the most from it by having read Hild ...Read Review

October in the Earth

By Olivia Hawker - Published 2023

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When Del runs away from her husband, a snake-handling preacher whose behavior makes the reader want to root for the snake, she hops ...Read Review

Beyond the Door of No Return

By David Diop - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

There are many doors of no return. Death is one, even for Orpheus, the tragic Greek hero who failed to bring his lover ...Read Review

Hotel Laguna

By Nicola Harrison - Published 2023

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Hazel Francis is a heroine for any woman who has been told, “Well, no, you can’t do that.” She’s an intrepid ...Read Review

Sally Brady’s Italian Adventure

By Christina Lynch - Published 2023

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Sally Brady is a child of the Dust Bowl whose chance adoption by a Hollywood star, Patsy Chen, changes her life but then ...Read Review

The Weeds

By Katy Simpson Smith - Published 2023

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Two women, one in 2018 and one in 1854, pursue the same task—cataloging the plants that grow in the ruins of the Colosseum in ...Read Review

In Memoriam

By Alice Winn - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

When war begins in 1914, Ellwood and Gaunt are seventeen, in their last year at their British boarding school. Almost immediately, their school newspaper ...Read Review

The Lumberjills

By M. W. Arnold - Published 2023

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The Lumberjills offers a look at the home front work done by British women during World War II. Restless after making no contribution ...Read Review

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, 1)

By K.J. Charles - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

Two men have an anonymous sexual encounter in London and do not expect to meet again. But when Gareth Inglis unexpectedly inherits a ...Read Review

The House of Eve

By Sadeqa Johnson - Published 2023

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The House of Eve explores culture, class, and the sometimes-heartbreaking complications of motherhood within the contrasting worlds of Black families in Washington, DC, ...Read Review