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by Michael Ennis
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsAgainst a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince.
by Lyndsay Faye
Published Mar 2013
Read Reviews1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.
by Carson Morton
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsWhat happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
by S.J. Parris
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsMasterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
by Peter Carey
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the two-time Booker Prizewinning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsWhen two nineteenth-century Oxford studentsVictor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelleyform an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
by Jed Rubenfeld
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsIn this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattans wealthiest heiresses
by Elizabeth Kostova
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsWhat does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existedand that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, ...
by Martin Davies
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsSeamlessly spanning two time periods, The Conjurer's Bird is at once the story of the romance between the 18th century naturalist Joseph Banks and the enigmatic 'Miss B', and of a present-day conservationist named Fitz, who is drawn into a thrilling and near-impossible race to find the elusive bird's only known remains.
by Iain Pears
Published Jun 2003
Read ReviewsThree narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its center, are the elements of this ingenious novel, a follow-up to the bestselling, An Instance Of The Fingerpost.
by Elizabeth Redfern
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsIn the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with France and espionage is rampant - and it is the job of John Absey to catch these spies. Intricately plotted and beautifully paced.
by Allen Kurzweil
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsA delicious compendium of quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous examples of theft, the book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun.
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