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Death at the Clos du Lac

By Adrian Magson - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Picardie, 1964. At the exclusive – and reclusive – Clos du Lac sanatorium, a grisly discovery is made in the swimming pool, triggering another case for ...Read Review

The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

In January 1866, Walter Moody, newly arrived in the New Zealand goldfields, stumbles into a furtive gathering of twelve local men who have met ...Read Review

Mr Darwin’s Gardener

By Kristina Carlson (trans. Emily and Fleur Jeremiah) - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This is not so much the story of Thomas Davies, the gardener, as of the villagers of Downe and the way in which ...Read Review

If I Close my Eyes Now

By Edney Silvestre - Published 2013

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

As Yuri Gagarin transmits from space, and indelibly changes our view of ourselves, two young boys bunking off school in an anonymous Brazilian ...Read Review

The Little Tokyo Informant

By Andrew Rosenheim - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

September 1941, and J. Edgar Hoover is preoccupied with using Hollywood to promote the image of the FBI. To this end, he has appointed ...Read Review

Welcome to the Free Zone

By Ladislas Gara - By Nathalie Gara - Published 2013

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In 1942, the village of Saint-Boniface in the Ardèche, in the French Free Zone established after the 1940 armistice, plays host to a motley ...Read Review

The Prisoner of Paradise

By Romesh Gunesekera - Published 2013

Genres:

First published in 2012, The Prisoner of Paradise tells the story of orphaned Lucy Gladwell, sent to live with her aunt and uncle in ...Read Review

Servants

By Lucy Lethbridge - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

As the popularity of Downton Abbey testifies, there is an insatiable appetite for the life of the great English country house, not just ...Read Review

The Handfasted Wife

By Carol McGrath - Published 2013

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

As we all know, the year 1066 was an eventful one. The struggle for the Crown triggered by the death of Edward the Confessor ...Read Review

Ratlines

By Stuart Neville - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

Ireland, in the summer of 1963, is preparing for a visit from U.S. President John F. Kennedy when a series of murders draws ...Read Review

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