by NRB | 15 Apr 2021 | Fiction |
Belinda Lyons-Lee’s debut novel takes the life of Marie Tussaud, creator of the famous waxworks, and adds magic, plots and madness. Sometimes, it seems, the truth really is stranger than fiction. Marie Tussaud really was rescued from the guillotine during the...
by NRB | 5 Sep 2013 | Fiction |
Eighteenth-century France is a feast for the senses in Jonathan Grimwood’s enjoyable romp. Set in the years leading up to the French Revolution, this is the story of Jean-Marie Charles D’Aumont, whom we first encounter eating beetles from a dung heap. His parents are...