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Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës
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“None of this would’ve happened, if six hadn’t become four.” So Charlotte Brontë begins the story of how the remaining Brontë ...Read Review
The Lace Maiden (The Smuggler’s Daughters)
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Deal, England, 1811. The Lennicker girls, aged 19, 17 and 14, face many adversaries in this maritime tale of salvage, smuggling and skulduggery. Not only is The ...Read Review
The First Actress: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt
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“I saw myself at Hugo’s side, the daughter of a courtesan, whom no one save my dear Dumas had believed would amount ...Read Review
Arrowood and the Thames Corpses
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The third instalment of the Arrowood series from Mick Finlay will enthral fans and newcomers alike. It’s set in the sweltering summer ...Read Review
The Odyssey of Geronimo
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Sonora, Mexico, 1886. On an isolated mountain, Geronimo and a dwindling and hunted band of Apaches are hiding from both the Mexican and American ...Read Review
Toward the Midnight Sun
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Like all romantic time periods, the Klondike Gold Rush didn’t last very long. Toward the Midnight Sun explores one year of the ...Read Review
In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams
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In late 1840s Missouri, 14-year-old Joshua’s mother tells him to follow her into the swamp to a religious service for slaves. There ...Read Review
This Blighted Expedition
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Parallel to the unsuccessful British Walcheren military campaign of 1809, a more clandestine political battle is taking place in the highest levels of His ...Read Review
The Philosopher’s Daughters
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Australian author, Alison Booth, has had four previously published historical novels, including Stillwater Creek and The Indigo Sky. Her previous novels are predominantly ...Read Review
Hope’s Highest Mountain (Hearts of Montana)
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Four people on a freight wagon pulled by two mules in a Rocky Mountain snowstorm in 1866 – what could possibly go wrong? Nearly everything, ...Read Review
