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The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

In seventeenth century Venice, Alessandra Rossetti, a courtesan, becomes entangled in a dangerous political intrigue that threatens to destroy the Venetian Republic. She alone has the power to reveal... read more


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The Last Gospel by David Gibbins (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Jack Howard is about to discover a secret. Perhaps the greatest secret ever kept What if one of the Ancient World's greatest libraries was buried in volcanic ash and then re-discovered two thousand... read more


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The Janissary Tree ('Yashim The Eunuch' Mystery) by Jason Goodwin (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens... read more


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Peony In Love by Lisa See (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The... read more


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The Siege by Helen Dunmore (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

The final words of Helen Dunmore's The Siege--"No, I shall not wholly die..."(Alexander Pushkin)--respond to the stark threat with which the novel begins: "Re: The future of Leningrad ... The... read more


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The House Of Special Purpose by John Boyne (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

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A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali by Gil Courtemanche (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide.All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the... read more


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The Island by Victoria Hislop (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before... read more


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More Twisted by Jeffery Deaver (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has famously thrilled and chilled fans with tales of masterful villains and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the... read more


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A Song For Summer by Eva Ibbotson (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

When Ellen Carr, daughter of a militant suffragette and raised to be an intellectual, takes a job in Austria as housemother at the Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and the Dance she simply wants to... read more


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Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders (Oscar Wilde Mysteries 1) by Gyles Brandreth (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

The truth is rarely pure and never simple...


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The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy) by Pat Barker (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

The final novel in a World War I trilogy focuses on compassionate psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers and Lieutenant Billy Prior as they both try to heal and cope with the trauma the war has ... read more


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Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

McCullough's Morgan's Run is a massive historical panoply presented to the reader in vivid poster colours, while powerful, larger-than-life characterisation galvanizes a narrative of nigh-operatic... read more


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Coastliners by Joanne Harris (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

After three novels which centred around gastronomic pleasures Joanne Harris's new book, Coastliners, focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand and adverse weather conditions replace Chocolat,... read more


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The Confessions Of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Out of the womb in 1871, Max Tivoli looked to all the world like a tiny 70-year-old man. But inside the aged body was an infant. Victim of a rare disease, Max grows physically younger as his mind... read more


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The Constant Gardener by John Le CarrĂ© (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

THE CONSTANT GARDENERTessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin--is gruesomely murdered in northern Kenya. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery... read more


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Secrets Of A Lady by Tracy Grant (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

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The Future Homemakers Of America by Laurie Graham (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Laurie Graham's much-anticipated novel The Future Homemakers of America introduces us to five American Air force wives stationed at a US airbase in the Norfolk Fens in 1953, the year of the... read more


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Sophie's Choice by William Styron (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one... read more


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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Readers who are entranced by sweeping historical sagas will devour Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks' drama set during the first world war. There's even a little high-toned erotica thrown into the mix to... read more


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