Books by Karen Brooks and Complete Book Reviews
Karen Brooks. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (608p) ISBN 978-0-06-268659-6
Historian and novelist Brooks (The Locksmith’s Daughter) shows her research and imaginative chops in a luscious and astonishingly affecting chronicle of family scandal, political unrest, and redemptive hope in 1660s London, through the Black Plague...
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Karen Brooks. Morrow, $17.99 trade paper (832p) ISBN 978-0-06-300824-3
The daughter of a merchant flouts 15th-century English convention to start a brewery in Brooks’s illuminating epic (after The Chocolate Maker’s Wife). At 19, Anneke Sheldrake is devastated when her father’s ship goes missing at sea. His employer,...
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Karen Brooks, Author Chronicle Books $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3017-1
The '50s-style cocktail party is back in style, and it's not your father's grumpy, whiskey-sodden affair. In Highballs and High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails, the authors of Atomic Cocktails show us just how feminine this nostalgic...
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