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A Novel of The Plague
by Geraldine Brooks
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by Minette Walters
Published Jul 2023
Read ReviewsA sweeping historical adventure set during one of the most turbulent periods of British history--featuring a heroine you'll never forget...
by Lucy Jago
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsWolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsThe startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.
by Sam Thomas
Published Dec 2013
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's Tale
by Michael Crummey
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsSprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
Daughters of the Witching Hill
by Mary Sharratt
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsDaughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt.
by Erika Mailman
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsIt is 1507. A friar arrives in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village nestled deeply in the woods. The village has been suffering a famine, but the friar promises he will identify the guilty woman - the witch - who has brought Gods anger upon the town; she will be burned, and bounty will be restored. But how quickly can she be found?
by James Morrow
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsJennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act.
by Judith Lindbergh
Published Dec 2006
Read ReviewsSet in Viking Greenland in AD 985, this dramatic historical novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future
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 Myla Goldberg
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsThrough narrative, authentic newspaper clippings, and fictional correspondence, the author of Bee Season offers an intimate view of the life of Lydia Kilkenny, a shop clerk and daughter of Irish immigrants in South Boston in the early 20th century.'
by Arthur Golden
Published Jan 1999
Read ReviewsAn alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
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