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A Novel
by Adam Foulds
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by Katherine Arden
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsDuring the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
by Kathy Hepinstall
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsIn the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds love and escape with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
by Bernie McGill
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsVivid, mysterious, and unforgettable, The Butterfly Cabinet is Bernie McGill's engrossing portrayal of the dark history that intertwines two lives - a haunting novel full of frightening silences and sorrowful absences that build toward an unexpected, chilling truth.
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 Robert Littell
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsThe Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.
by Clare Clark
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsWith extraordinarily vivid characters and unflinching prose The Great Stink marks the debut of an outstandingly talented writer in the tradition of the best historical novelists.
by Sonny Brewer
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA moving and irresistible book based on the true story of Henry Stuart who, given less than a year to live, moved to Alabama, discarded his boots and built a round hut that he lived in for the next twenty years.
by David Czuchlewski
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsPart love story and part journey into the psychology of genius, The Muse Asylum is a tale of stunning reversals and reflections in a world where things are never quite what they seem.
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