Elisabeth Lenckos
Tony’s Wife
Genres:
Whether she will be ‘Tony’s wife,’ or her own, independent woman, is a decision Italian-American Chiara Donatelli has to make when she ...Read Review
We Must Be Brave
Genres:
This novel opens with one of the loveliest images in World War II literature: a small girl, “curled up, thumb in mouth,” and ...Read Review
Lady in Ermine: The Story of a Woman Who Painted the Renaissance
Genres:
What reader could not fall in love with a heroine—a female Renaissance painter, no less—as she strives to preserve the artistic ...Read Review
Annelies
Genres:
Alternate HistoryBiographical Fiction
How we all wish that she had survived. That bright-eyed and brave child diarist, whose candid, wise-beyond-her years journal of her undercover exile ...Read Review
The Way of All Flesh
Genres:
Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven, a young obstetrician, cannot believe his good luck. He has beat out the competition and joined the practice of Dr. ...Read Review
Melmoth
Genres:
Beware the reader delving into the wondrous world of Sarah Perry’s Melmoth without the time to finish this breathtaking novel in one ...Read Review
So Much Life Left Over
Genres:
Towards the end of this novel, which evokes the classics of Great War literature, an old lady reminisces with her cook about the ...Read Review
The Lost Pages
Genres:
Famous for his disregard of Kafka’s last request to burn his papers, Max Brod published The Trial, The Castle and Amerika—works ...Read Review
The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
Genres:
What kind of man secures a royal decree to lock up his pregnant daughter and ship her to the colonies? Beauty and cruelty ...Read Review
The Sapphire Widow
Genres:
The breathtaking scenery of Ceylon is the true hero of this novel, as the descriptions of its verdant hills, turquoise seas, ancient estates, ...Read Review
