Sally Zigmond
Remarkable Creatures
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In this novel, Tracy Chevalier turns her novelist’s eye to the life of Mary Anning who, although reasonably well known as a ...Read Review
Give Me Tomorrow
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Elizabeth Lord writes warm and dependable sagas about the lives of women in the early 20th century. This one, first published in 2006, is ...Read Review
Testament of Youth
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What more can one say about this classic autobiography? It is one of those books that absolutely everyone should read; and not just ...Read Review
The Naqib’s Daughter
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As in her previous, acclaimed novel, The Cairo House, the setting is Cairo, but now it is the late 18th century. Napoleon ...Read Review
Tudor Rose
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This novel tells the fascinating real-life story of Rose Hickman, née Locke. Nearing the end of her life, she wrote a ...Read Review
The Pagan House
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Thirteen-year-old Eddie Pagan (or Edgar as he prefers to be called) travels from London to New York State to visit his paternal grandmother, ...Read Review
East of the Sun
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Rushed into paperback after having been chosen as one of Richard and Judy’s Summer Reads*, this novel tells the story of three ...Read Review
Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess
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The governess has played a more important role in literature than she was ever afforded in real life. Most did not have the ...Read Review
The Montmartre Investigation
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This is the third in the series of crime novels featuring Parisian bookseller and amateur sleuth, Victor Legris. This time a series of ...Read Review
The Warrior’s Princess
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At an end-of-term party, Jess, a teacher in London, is drugged and raped by someone she knows well. She suspects several men although ...Read Review