My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein'In one short and sly book after another, [Levy] writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' Atlantic Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self declared genius a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why does she

an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific

No one has seen or heard from him in weeks

and before he knows it he's gotten far too close to the other woman

Lyra Belacqua

As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back the enemy at the gates

the master of dramatic design

His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family

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These are retellings of medieval tales of legend

Grania's mother becomes deeply troubled as her family's past seems set to repeat its sorrows

she travels between little fishing ports and explores Puglia's gay capital

In the glittering society of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires