Henry Eliot’s future seemed well and truly settled: on the personal front, with his engagement to Marly, on the professional front, as an architect in the employ of Sir Bertram Tranter, Marly’s incredibly rich and powerful father. He had promised his daughter a strip of Portuguese coast for a wedding ... more >
… a new historical novel set in a world of banned books and censorship, in which an encrypted manuscript unleashes a chain of consequences across 400 years … 1552, PARIS: The printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a ... more >
In the vibrant, volatile court of Henry VIII, can even the most willful young woman direct her own fate and follow her heart in a world ruled by powerful men? Clever, headstrong Elizabeth Rose Camperdowne knows her duty. As the sole heiress to an old but impoverished noble family, Eliza ... more >
I read these two books in succession a bit after Halloween – they weren’t exactly spooky season reads, but I had been consuming media about the Salem Witch Trials – among other historical witch trials and hysterias – around the holiday, and a friend suggested these two title to me. ... more >
This much-loved English novel from Rumer Godden is reminiscent of The Secret Garden, telling a fairy tale-esque story about neighborhood children and a mysterious garden in post-WWII London. An emergency meeting of the Mortimer Square Garden Committee has been convened to discuss a most alarming matter: someone has been digging ... more >
A thirty-year-old mother of two and wife of a prominent Brooklyn ship broker registers at the Queen Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using a false name. Two weeks later she is buried in the local cemetery. Or is she? Without family or friends, health or hope, Sadie Walford arrives already ... more >