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The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
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Gilmore’s dual-timeline gothic horror weaves the author’s rich ancestral history through narratives set in the rue Daru colony of aristos and é...Read Review
The Silver Thread
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The Silver Thread is a dual-timeline novel. The main storyline follows Isobel (Bel) Bright between 1875 and 1923. It opens in London. Eighteen-year-old Bel’s ...Read Review
The Scorpion Thief (Threads of the Lost Myth)
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It is 1976, and the spectre of war looms over Cairo as American-Israeli museum curator Noura Marquette organizes an exhibition of never-before-seen objects from ...Read Review
Where the False Gods Dwell
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In this fictional retelling, two American women and one Jamaican woman accompany real-life Black dancer-choreographer Katherine Dunham on an expedition to a remote ...Read Review
Daughter of the Titanic
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Cauchi’s fictional biography introduces Helen Melville (Mel) Russell Cooke in 1973, when researcher, Dr Catherine Haynes, having come across a 1959 David Rolt portrait, ...Read Review
The Icarus Ascent: Ghosts of the Matterhorn
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Swiss Alps, 1865: the first ascent of the Matterhorn ends in catastrophe. Fifty years later, the loss of four of his seven-men team still ...Read Review
Time for Courage
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The Ingelse family lives on a farm outside Utrecht in the Netherlands—an ideal base for their Dutch Resistance operations. It is 1944, and ...Read Review
Aicha
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Set during the Portuguese occupation of Morocco in 1769, this follows the feisty Aicha, one of a family of freedom fighters. But as she ...Read Review
Thistlemarsh
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1919 England. Mouse Dunne has been left two options: Within 30 days, she must restore a crumbling manor house and its furnishings or get married. ...Read Review
Finding Ida
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This is a structurally surprising book, but it works beautifully. The narrative begins in Singapore in 1955, where Luiza, settled into a happy marriage ...Read Review
