Tooly’s quiet life as a bookshop owner becomes cacophonous when an ex-boyfriend writes with news. Read the book review of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.

Review: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, Tom Rachman - Chatelaine Book Club

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The adventure begins when Vivian is summoned to retrieve a battered suitcase at a nearby post office. Read the full review of The Secret Life of Violet Grant.

Review: The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Beatriz Williams - Chatelaine Book Club

Harrowing and heart-lifting by turns, Anthony Doerr’s masterful new novel, All the Light We Cannot See, gives history a human face and finds intimacy amid the chaos of war. 

Review: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr - Chatelaine Book Club

A coming-of-age romance takes a supernatural twist in Lauren Owen’s first novel, The Quick.

Review: The Quick, Lauren Owen - Chatelaine Book Club

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The Heiresses is a perfect cottage read — especially if you happen to summer on Martha’s Vineyard, like the family at the heart of this Gossip-Girl-meets-the-Kennedys whodunit.

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A girl retraces her puzzling and chaotic childhood

A debutante uncovers her aunt’s deadly love affair

A blind French girl and a young Nazi set off on a collision course

A girl uncovers an underground society in her quest to find her brother

Someone’s out to kill four wealthy Manhattan socialites