The indefatigable author of ‘Schindler’s Ark’ picks up here on the story of Dickens’s youngest son, who emigrated to Australia to become a sheep farmer.
The Dickens Boy
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Edition:Hardback978152934507003/09/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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Connecting with her sequence 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila', this new novel concerns the family's errant son Jack, the intelligent, drunk, courteous, poetry-loving, foolish ne'er-do-well. Aspir... read more
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Set in a lonely castle in the Styrian forest, this predates Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' by 26 years. An early exemplar of the lesbian vampire myth.
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A sensitive novel about Elizabeth MacArthur, who managed to flourish at the end of the world (Australia in the 1790s) despite being married to an exceptionally obnoxious man.
A Room Made of Leaves
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Nothing too alarming in this amiable tale of murder and skulduggery, set on St Michael's Mount in December 1938.
The Dead of Winter
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