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The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope)

By Claire North - Published 2024

Genres:

Epic

In the third and final part of the Songs of Penelope series, Claire North takes us to the Greek island of Ithaca for ...Read Review

The King’s Witches

By Kate Foster - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

It is 1589, and Anna, the princess of Denmark, is heading for Scotland with her dour lady-in-waiting, Kirsten, to meet her betrothed, King James ...Read Review

Orphia And Eurydicius

By Elyse John - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

In a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice’s myth, author Elyse John turns the story on its head. Orpheus becomes the female Orphia ...Read Review

Death on the Lusitania (Patrick Gallagher, 1)

By R. L. Graham - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNautical

In 1915, the luxurious ocean liner RMS Lusitania sets sail from New York to Europe, where war is raging. A passenger is discovered shot ...Read Review

The Great Deceiver

By Elly Griffiths - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It’s 1966, and famous magician Max Mephisto is in Kensington, innocently engaged in the domestic pursuit of visiting his daughter and newborn granddaughter ...Read Review

The Case of the Wandering Corpse (Major Gask Mysteries)

By David Cairns of Finavon - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Dynamic duo Major Findo Gask and Erroll Rait join forces once again for this entertaining detective story set in Melbourne, Australia. It is 1863, ...Read Review

The Clairvoyant: The Man Who Predicted Hitler’s Rise to Power

By Gervasio Posadas - By Kathryn Phillips-Miles (trans.) - By Simon Deefholts (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

The Clairvoyant: The Man Who Predicted Hitler’s Rise to Power tells the true story of Eric Jan Hanussen, one of the greatest ...Read Review

The Runaway Bride

By Felicity York - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

We first meet the Turner family when our protagonist’s father admires the fruits of his labours as he arrives at his stately ...Read Review

The Messenger of Measham Hall (Measham Hall, Book 2)

By Anna Abney - Published 2023

Genres:

When we first meet the protagonist, Nicholas Hawthorne, it is 1678. The twelve-year-old is the Catholic heir to Measham Hall in Derbyshire, a safe ...Read Review

A Most Intriguing Lady

By Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

We first meet our heroine, Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott—the ‘intriguing lady’ of the title, and daughter of the Duke and Duchess ...Read Review