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Jazz Moon
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This coming-out tale, the author’s debut, is notable for its very subject matter: a gay black man’s personal journey of discovery ...Read Review
Winter
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Thomas Hardy was a prolific 19th-century novelist and poet, whose books about life and love in rural England used to be staples on ...Read Review
And Is There Honey Still for Tea?
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Believing that the defections of the Cambridge Spies during the Cold War are over, the British government now faces another possible scandal. This ...Read Review
Not All Bastards Are From Vienna
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This restrained, beautifully written debut novel looks at war from the microcosm of a single location, that of a villa in the small ...Read Review
Titans
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Texas, 1880. In a dramatic prologue, which sets the stage for Meacham’s third family epic (after Somerset, 2014), a young mother gives away one ...Read Review
Echoes from Afar
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London, 1936. After spiteful rumours force her out of her nursing job, Annabelle Blake flees to Paris to stay with her Bohemian Aunt Aline. ...Read Review
Murder Most Malicious
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In 1918, WWI is over, and scarred and bedraggled Englishmen have returned from the military. Nineteen-year-old Phoebe has lost her parents and, with her ...Read Review
My Sweet Vidalia
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It’s not often that a book is narrated by a spirit child, but it is she who provides perspective in the marvelous ...Read Review
Midnight in Berlin
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What can I say about this book except that it ticks all the right boxes? It is a spy thriller with: – a tightly ...Read Review
The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom
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The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom is a sweeping novel that explores humanity, family loyalty, and national prejudice in the face of war. ...Read Review
