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by Graham Watson
Published Aug 2025
Read ReviewsA profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Brontë family as they've never been seen before.
by Felix J. Palma
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsA skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.
by Ian Sansom
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsIsrael Armstrong - the hapless librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland - suspects a teenage girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out...
by Gregory Maguire
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsTen years after the publication of Wicked, Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy killed the witch.
by Andrew Sean Greer
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsAn extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards.
by Audrey Niffenegger
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsA funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.
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