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The Untold by Courtney Collins

Imagine ifTrue Grit were set in the Aussie bush and narrated by a dead baby whose mother is a murderer/ horse thief. It’s a story so compelling you’ll feel the dirt beneath your feet.

Lovers at the Chameleon Club

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Francine Prose This is Paris populated by a more interesting cast of characters: a baroness, a Hungarian photographer and

a lesbian race-car driver. The Quick by Lauren Owen While the plucky heroine’s poet brother is missing in the depths of Victorian London, you’ll be charmed by this debut novel that’s equal partsNancy

Drew andNorthanger Abbey.

The Confabulist by Steven

GallowayPick the lock on Houdini with this fictional (but fact-based) telling of the extraordinary life of the man who began as a phony psychic and became the greatest magician. ■