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by Samantha Silva
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsFrom the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world's first feminist.
by Sarah Penner
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsA forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary.
by Sara Donati
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York.
by Barry Unsworth
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsSpring of 1767: Erasmus Kemp has brought back fugitive settlers from America, among them Sullivan, an Irish fiddler....The Quality of Mercy is rich and rewarding historical fiction of the highest order from the master, Barry Unsworth.
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