TOO MANY MAGPIES
Elizabeth Baines
A young mother married to a scientist fears for her children's safety as the natural world around her becomes ever more uncertain. Until, that is, she meets a charismatic stranger who seems to offer a different kind of power....
Salt, paperback, 9781844717217
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THE MAN IN THE WOODEN HAT
Jane Gardam
Old Filth, Gardam's masterpiece, is the story of Sir Edward Feathers, but in this new companion novel, we get the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.
Europa Editions, paperback, 9781933372891 (November) Chatto & Windus, hardcover, 9780701177980
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DANCING WITH MR. DARCY: STORIES INSPIRED BY JANE AUSTEN AND CHAWTON HOUSE
Foreward/Intro by Sarah Waters
An anthology of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in the village of Chawton, where she spent the most productive years of her literary life.
Honno (UK), paperback, 9781906784089
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THE MAGNETIC NORTH
Sara Wheeler
Sara Wheeler is the author of five previous books, including Evia which was reviewed in Belletrista's first issue. Her bestselling Terra Incognito, about the Antarctic, finally finds a counterpart in this, her exploration of the beautiful, brutal reality of the Arctic. Join the author as she smashes through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herds reindeer across the tundra with Lapps, and puts up her tent on the top of the Greenland ice sheet.
Jonathan Cape (UK), hardcover, 9780224082211
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NUDE
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
At the center of this collection from award-winning author Chonchúir is the unclothed body; in bedrooms, in art, and in and out of love. These are lush stories of visual art, the heart and the body, in all their beauties and betrayals; there is humor and quirkiness, but beneath that is the reassurance of truth — the hallmark of all quality fiction.
Salt, paperback, 9781844716425
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FLINT
Margaret Redfern
Two brothers are on the long march to North Wales, commandeered into the army of ditch-diggers where they will be preparing the ground for the foundations of Edward I's new castle. The boys find themselves a long way from home, virtually friendless, captured by the 'enemy' and suspected of treason. In this gripping and original novel, one of the brothers will learn that love is sometimes harder to understand and to come to terms with than death itself....
Honno (UK), paperback, 9781906784041
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SUMMER WILL SHOW
Sylvia Townsend Warner
A young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family, a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris and intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her children in proper Tory fashion. When tragedy strikes the young woman's life takes an unexpected turn. A reissue of a classic.
NYRB (US), paperback, 9781590173169
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EATING AIR
Pauline Melville
Ella de Vries, a stunning beauty with obsidian eyes who dances with the Royal Ballet, falls in love with Donny McLeod, a Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who 'believes in nothing'.
Telegram Books, hardback, 9781846590764
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MURDER ON THE CLIFFS
Joanna Challis
The first in a new mystery series by Australian author Challis, Murder on the Cliffs introduces us to the young fledgling writer-turned-detective Daphne du Maurier. Walking the cliffs of Cornwall, Daphne stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman who is later discovered to be the fiancee of Lord Hartley of Padthaway. When the drowning turns out to be murder, Daphne is determined to get to the bottom of it for she cannot resist the allure of grand houses and long buried secrets.
Minotaur (US), hardcover, 9780312367145 (November)
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