Marina Maxwell
The Black Russian and the Serpent’s Sting
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The historical biography The Black Russian (HNR Aug 2014) tells the fascinating true story of how Frederick Bruce Thomas, descendant of American slaves, became ...Read Review
Death at the Highland Loch: An absolutely addictive historical cozy mystery set in the Scottish Highlands (Lady Poppy Proudfoot Book 1)
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It is June 1924, and Lady Persephone (Poppy) Proudfoot is looking forward to a country house week on the estate of Lady Constance Balfour, ...Read Review
The Lost Story of Sofia Castello
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London 2000. Lily is a ghostwriter of celebrity biographies. She’s at a low point after her boyfriend has abandoned her for another woman. ...Read Review
The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress
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Widowed dressmaker Ann Inett struggles to support two children. When she has difficulty collecting a debt, she feels justified in breaking into her ...Read Review
The Famine Orphans
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In 1848, sixteen-year-old Kate Gilvarry is one of a group of young Irish women considered for the Earl Grey Emigration Scheme created by the ...Read Review
The English Problem
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When still a child, Shiv Advani catches the eye of Mahatma Gandhi, India’s revolutionary leader, who sees him as someone who will ...Read Review
Outside Women
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Hajra, a Pakistani academic living in New York, attends a lecture on indentured Indian women who were sent to Natal, South Africa, in ...Read Review
The Hidden Book
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This dual-narrative novel weaves between Mauthausen, an Austrian concentration camp during World War II, and Australia from the 1980s to the present. Teenager ...Read Review
Yoruba Boy Running
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Essentially, this is the story of Samuel Àjàyí Crowther, the first African Bishop in West Africa, but it doesn’t follow any ...Read Review
The Winter Palace
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This Winter Palace is not the famous residence of Russian Tsars, but rather a family mansion near Poznan, Poland, the home of Anton ...Read Review
