Sarah Bower
An Almond for a Parrot
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In Newgate Prison, courtesan and arbiter of fashion Tully Truegood awaits trial for murder and passes the time writing her memoirs. She has ...Read Review
Sudden Death
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This is a novel which is gloriously and provocatively impossible to classify. If the author did not himself refer to it as a ...Read Review
Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
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In 1889, the painter Vincent Van Gogh is expelled from the Provençal town of Arles after being caught walking through the town with ...Read Review
The Prospector
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At the turn of the 20th century, on the island of Mauritius, the idyllic childhood of Alexis L’Étang and his beloved sister, ...Read Review
The Bickford Fuse
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As the Great Patriotic War comes to an uneasy close in 1945, a bizarre assortment of people begin epic journeys across the Soviet Union. ...Read Review
Napoleon’s Last Island
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The story of Napoleon’s last years on Saint Helena is more legend than history to anyone who has studied history from an ...Read Review
Charlotte
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Charlotte, by French writer David Foenkinos, tells the story of Charlotte Salomon, a young artist passionately in love with her art and willing ...Read Review
Between Enemies
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November 1917. Austrian soldiers requisition the estate of the aristocratic Spada family, near Venice. The family and their servants, as well as the occupying ...Read Review
Little Aunt Crane
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Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, sixteen-year-old Tatsuru flees the mass suicides of Japanese communities in Manchuria and is sold into slavery to ...Read Review
Red Icon
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This fifth book in Eastland’s Inspector Pekkala series begins with the accidental discovery of a lost icon in the crypt of a ...Read Review
