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A Novel
by Kate Morton
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by Kristin Harmel
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsA moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II.
by Sarah Waters
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place.
by Jo Baker
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsPride and Prejudice was only half the story. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen's classic and creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.
by Diane Setterfield
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsA love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life...
by Michael Cox
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsConvinced he is destined for greatness, Glyver will stop at nothing to win back a prize that he knows is rightfully his. A story of betrayal and treachery, of death and delusion, of ruthless obsession and ambition.
by Jane Harris
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsA powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories and mysterious disappearances set in Victorian Scotland.
by Julian Barnes
Published Dec 2006
Read ReviewsAn utter astonishment that captures an era through one life celebrated internationally - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and another entirely forgotten - George Edalji.
by Jacqueline Winspear
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsMaisie is as intelligent and engaging a sleuth as one might desire: the period touches, from clothing to manners, are not only elegantly presented but unostentatious.
by Ian McEwan
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profoundand profoundly movingexploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
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