Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the early 20th Century.
Early 20th Century
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The House of Doors
by Tan Twan Eng
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
by Douglas Brunt
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel.
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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
by Olga Tokarczuk
Hardcover: Sep 2024
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
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A Disappearance in Fiji
by Nilima Rao
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: May 2024
A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing persons case in colonial Fiji
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Where Coyotes Howl
by Sandra Dallas
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas.
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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
by Hilary A. Hallett
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Apr 2024
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.
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In Memoriam: A Novel
by Alice Winn
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Paperback: Mar 2024
Winner: BookBrowse Debut Book Award 2023
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I.
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The White Lady: A Novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Paperback: Mar 2024
The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former ...
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel
by Katherine Arden
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling ...
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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
by Kerri K. Greenidge
Hardcover: Nov 2022
Paperback: Feb 2024
A stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family.
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After Sappho: A Novel
by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Jan 2024
An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.
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This Other Eden: A Novel
by Paul Harding
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Dec 2023
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.
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