Encaged in 19th-century drawing rooms, tiny linnet birds warbled musically as favored pets. Little Linny Gow, the central character of Linda Holeman’s spellbinding new novel, The Linnet Bird, lives in ...

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On a bald, barbed bramble the perched bird flashed its scarlet breast and turned its flecked red head, moving to shy away on a windswept headland of furze and scrub on a wild Atlantic corner of the ...

A historical romance with a soft-focus cover, Holeman's first adult novel (she's written a handful of young adult books, including Search of the Moon King's Daughter) opens in Calcutta but quickly ...