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by Margaret Atwood
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsIn this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
by Steve Erickson
Published Feb 2018
Read ReviewsIn the year 2021, a brother and sister make a cross-country pilgrimage to the Badlands of South Dakota, where the Twin Towers have suddenly reappeared - and Elvis Presley's stillborn twin brother has inexplicably reawakened.
by Ben H. Winters
Published Jul 2017
Read ReviewsIt is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred.
by Guy Saville
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe explosive new thriller of a world that so nearly existed
by C.J. Sansom
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsC.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany.
by Helga Weiss
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaustappearing in English for the first time.
by Owen Sheers
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsImbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
by Michael Chabon
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsFor sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to ...
by Jo Walton
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsIn an alternate history, a radical group overthrew Churchill and made peace with Hitler. Now, eight years later at a country retreat, one of the group is murdered; and suspicion falls on the Jewish husband of one of their adult children.
by Susanna Clarke
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsSophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.
by Steven Barnes
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsAn ambitious and absorbing sequel to Lion's Blood - the magnificent abundance of detail of this alternate world carries the day, with considerable assistance from skilled characterization leaning to the romantic side.
by William Boyd
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsA moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life.
by Brendan DuBois
Published Oct 2000
Read ReviewsA chilling tale of intrigue and betrayal in the aftermath of an American nuclear war, and one of the most inventive novels of alternative history since Robert Harris's Fatherland.
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