20th Century
The Fire Horse Girl
Jade Moon is not the average Chinese immigrant, and this is not a stereotypical story of immigrants rising to success…
The Monster’s Lament
London in the spring of 1945, and the country is starting to think about the ending of the Second World…
A World Between Us
In a story of young loves lost in the Spanish Civil War, Felicity and Nat meet at Mosley’s 1936 Black…
War Story
War Story is set in 1916 and chronicles Second Lieutenant Oliver Paxton’s first few weeks as a member of the…
The Great Deception
A few years after WWII, Shelly and her husband Cole have settled on a farm southwest of Sydney. Knowing little…
The Third Son
Saburo and his family live in Japanese-occupied Taoyuan (Taiwan) in the 1930s. Her father has learned to adapt to the…
Hammett Unwritten
The one word that comes to mind when reading Owen Fitzstephen’s Hammett Unwritten (as discovered and edited by Gordon McAlpine)…
Studio Saint-Ex
This story begins in 1942 and skips ahead to 1967. The heroine, an aspiring fashion designer in Manhattan, is a…
They Also Serve
Born the son of a gamekeeper in 1902, Bob Sharpe’s life “in service” spans the latter era of classist society…
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
The book’s title contains the clue to its unique approach. Duggan has drawn on the reams of correspondence received by…
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