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A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys.

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The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides...

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One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy...

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Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective...

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In an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth, a widow whose sons have flown the nest, lives alone. Until one day a...

In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the...

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In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to...

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