Saga
The Penny Bangle
This is the third novel of a trilogy, and the first I’ve read. In 1942, Cassie Taylor is sick of…
The Red Chamber
Pauline Chen brings new life to the Chinese classic work of literature, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story…
Two Crosses | Two Testaments
Editors' choice
Two Crosses begins the unforgettable story of several characters in a saga that stretches across opposite coasts of the Mediterranean…
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul
This novel opens in 1920 Istanbul, during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. The events unfold through the experiences…
Harvest of War
Leonora “Leo” Malham Brown has been through a lot in her young life. Eager for adventure, she joined the First…
The Island House
When archaeologist Freya Dane’s absentee father dies, she inherits his dilapidated old home on Findnar, an island off the Scottish…
Rome’s Executioner: Vespasian II
Rome’s Executioner, set in AD 30, is the second novel in a saga narrating the rise of Vespasian in the…
The Free World
In the 1970s, more than a quarter of a million Jews left the Soviet Union in search of religious and…
The Isle of Kheria
Some readers may shy away from John Cabot’s choppy, cursory, incomplete writing style, but I recommend leaping onto its back.…
Walk to Paradise Garden
While serving as a stretcher bearer in World War I France, humanitarian John Armitage meets and falls in love with…
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