Book Review: The Homes
A thousand unwanted children live in The Homes, a village of orphans on the outskirts of Glasgow. Lesley was six before she learned that most children live with their parents. Continue reading Book Review: The Homes
Category: History
Book Review: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. This is 1818 after all, and only men have the privilege of seeking their own riches. Continue reading Book Review: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting
Book Review: Broadmoor Women
Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Continue reading Book Review: Broadmoor Women
Book Review: The Orphanage Girls
Ruth dares to dream of another life – far away from the horrors within the walls of Bethnal Green’s infamous orphanage. Luckily she has her friends, Amy and Ellen – but she can’t keep them safe, and the suffering is only getting worse. Surely there must be a way out? Continue reading Book Review: The Orphanage Girls
Book Review: Black Butterflies
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside. Continue reading Book Review: Black Butterflies
Book Review: A Taste for Killing
Godfrey Bowyer, the best but least likeable bow maker in Worcester, dies of poisoning, though his wife Blanche survives. Continue reading Book Review: A Taste for Killing
Book Review: Arcadian Nights
Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon. Continue reading Book Review: Arcadian Nights
Book Review: The Secret of Karabakh
You are not who you think you are. Your future is not what you think it will be.
You are in danger… Continue reading Book Review: The Secret of Karabakh
Book Review: The Belles of Waterloo
Maria, Georgy and Harriet navigate their first throes of passion, scandal, and love in the heady pre-war atmosphere of Brussels in 1815. Continue reading Book Review: The Belles of Waterloo
Book Review: The Real Kenneth Grahame
He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame was a Scot. Continue reading Book Review: The Real Kenneth Grahame
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