Bruce Macbain
The Girl in Berlin
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In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both high-level British diplomats, were exposed as Soviet spies and fled to Moscow. At the same time, ...Read Review
Farthing
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Alternate HistoryMystery/Crime
Jo Walton’s 2006 novel, now reissued in paperback, is set in a counter-historical Britain of the late 1940s. It is both a traditional “...Read Review
The Hunger Angel
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The fact that this book’s German title, Atemschaukel, translates as something like “Breath Swing,” while the British edition is titled Everything I ...Read Review
Sacred Treason
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This is the first volume in a trilogy of political thrillers set in Elizabethan England. The protagonist, William Harley, although a Catholic under ...Read Review
Every Man for Himself
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This is a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, originally published in 1996 and now reissued, as have been so many other ...Read Review
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
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In the 1970s, a handwritten manuscript of some 4,000 pages (of which only a small portion was previously known) came to light in the ...Read Review
Among the Wonderful
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This beautifully written literary novel takes us inside the strange, claustrophobic world of P.T. Barnum’s Museum of Wonders – that is, strange ...Read Review
A Spark of Death
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Pajer’s debut novel, the first in a proposed series, introduces us to an unlikely sleuth. Benjamin Bradshaw is a professor of electrical ...Read Review
In the Garden of Beasts
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“Once, at the dawn of a very dark time, an American father and daughter found themselves suddenly transported from their snug home in ...Read Review
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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When Wayne B. Wheeler died in 1927, an obituary in the Washington Post stated, “No other private citizen of the United States has left ...Read Review
