Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ullman Bell has distilled an appropriately lyrical novel of the life of the woman known as The Poetess (as Homer was known simply as The Poet). more
Tatiana de Rosnay's The House I Loved evokes a 19th-century French city's
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Can a novel make us nostalgic for a place we've never been? With her third
English-language release, an uncomplicated story brimming with homespun
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3 days ago
What a great review, (another!), you must be very proud, and rightly so.
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