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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Fiction: Classics. Paperback from Penguin Classics. Originally published beginning in 1854 in Dicken’s Household Words as a serial. This edition was published in 1995, edited by Patricia Ingham… more »
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
bibliophilist wrote 3 months ago: Fiction: Classics. Paperback from Penguin Classics. Originally published beginning in 1854 in Dicken … more »
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
bibliophilist wrote 9 months ago: Fiction: Historical. Paperback from Algonquin Books. Published in 2006. 331 pages. On loan from the … more »
Cloud of Bone, by Bernice Morgan
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trudyj65 wrote 10 months ago: Cloud of Bone is another of those books that I’m much too prejudiced to be reviewing, but I w … more »
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I, The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
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Trilby wrote 1 week ago: I must begin with a confession. Despite the fact that I write (among other things) books for childre … more »
Celebrating Antonia Forest: the grown-up children's author
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Emma wrote 1 week ago: Perhaps it was inevitable that Antonia Forest should go out of fashion for a while. When you were bo … more »
A Northern Light
Book Mavens wrote 1 week ago: Title: A Northern Light Author: Jennifer Donnelly Summary: Unlike many girls in the Great North W … more »
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
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trudyj65 wrote 1 week ago: People of the Book is, for me as a reader, the perfect union of an author I love with subject matter … more »
Patriot Hearts by Barbara Hambly
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Jackie wrote 2 weeks ago: Celebrating America’s national holiday. Happy 4th of July! On Independence Day, we hear a l … more »
Skeletons at the Feast
Book Mavens wrote 1 month ago: Title: Skeletons at the Feast Author: Chris Bohjalian Summary: Skeletons at the Feast, the ne … more »
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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Jackie wrote 1 month ago: Anyone picking up Bernhard Schlink’s novel, as I did, planning on being titillated by the older … more »
Diana Birchall: Mrs Darcy's Dilemma
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Leena wrote 1 month ago: The Austen sequel seems to be a genre of its own nowadays, and surely a tricky one to pull off. A s … more »
The Paradise Will, by Elizabeth Hanbury
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: The premise of The Paradise Will is really a very charming one. A young lady is compelled by her ecc … more »
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
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Jackie wrote 2 months ago: Whenever I read a Peter Carey novel, I know there’s going to be unusual characters, whose quirks … more »
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
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marygm wrote 2 months ago: It is impossible to read Suite Française without being strongly influenced by the context in which … more »
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory - NKOTB - what I'm reading
Kylee wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been putting off writing my review of The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory; I fini … more »
Testament, by Nino Ricci
trudyj65 wrote 2 months ago: Testament is a gorgeously written re-telling of the story of Jesus of Nazareth — not the story … more »
The Known World by Edward P Jones
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marygm wrote 2 months ago: The Known World opens in the years before the American Civil War with the death of Henry Townsend, … more »
Soul Catcher
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Book Mavens wrote 2 months ago: Title: Soul Catcher Author: Michael White Summary:Augustus Cain has a dependency on laudanum, a we … more »
Interview with Susan Barrett - author of Fixing Shadows and The Inconstant Husband
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Lisa wrote 2 months ago: Today we’re lucky enough to have an interview with Susan Barrett - a very talented writer of … more »
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