Ann Chamberlin
A History of the Big House
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A History of the Big House, translated from the French, stands halfway between a novel and a memoir. Majdalani writes to recreate the ...Read Review
Paradises Lost (The Passage Through Time, 1)
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This is the first volume of an ambitious proposed eight-volume history of the world in novel form “as if Yuval Noah Harari had ...Read Review
No More Empty Spaces
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In the 1970s, a broken American family goes to Turkey when their adventurous geologist father takes a job on a dam-building site—the ...Read Review
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case
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Having tackled the mystery of the body of Richard III (1452-1485) missing from Bosworth Field (“My kingdom for a horse”), exhumed him from ...Read Review
A Turkish Triangle
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In October 1962, CIA officer Karl Baier is sent to Turkey to discover those responsible for the recent deaths of three Soviet assets useful ...Read Review
Murder in Williamstown (Phryne Fisher Mysteries, 22)
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Flapper Phryne Fisher makes her twenty-second outing in this book, which ends with the winds of economic collapse blowing in from offshore. Opium ...Read Review
Suleiman’s Ring
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“Epic” describes this novel that begins in 1951 and carries us through wars and crises to the aftermath of the assassination of President Anwar ...Read Review
The Vienna Writers Circle
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The German annexation of Austria in 1938 plunges its cosmopolitan European capital into the nightmare of authoritarian restrictions and genocide that had already gathered ...Read Review
The Welsh Dragon: A Novel of Henry Tudor
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The tail end of the Wars of the Roses has often been told focusing on Richard III, from Shakespeare’s love-to-hate villain to ...Read Review
Torch
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1969, the year after the Prague Spring was crushed in August by Soviet tanks rolling over the “socialism with a human face” into Czechoslovakia, ...Read Review
