20th Century
Transcending Darkness
“If you sit in a dark hole in the ground listening to the world crashing around you, you never stop…
S.O.S. Lusitania
1915. Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy suffers from prophetic nightmares. His latest is of an explosion on a big ship, and he’s…
The Teleportation Accident
The Accident begins in a Cabaret-like Weimar Berlin, but wanders from there to a McCarthy Hollywood. And even as far…
Hornet’s Sting
This novel vividly describes the multitude of characters and exploits of Hornet Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and opens with…
A Conscious Englishman
Set in 1914 shortly after the declaration of war, this biographical novel covers the final years of journalist and poet…
The Ashford Affair
Willig, author of the popular Pink Carnation series, departs from Napoleonic era, flower-monikered spies and the academics who research them…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
An intimate portrait of a flamboyantly public marriage, Z imagines Zelda Fitzgerald’s voice in this exhilarating account of a life…
Gingersnap
In the mid-1940s, Jayna lives in small town America with her 18-year-old brother Rob, a navy cook. The two talk…
The Accursed
Editors' choice
Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle…
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