Great Depression

Every Hour until Then

By Gabrielle Meyer - Published 2025

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Inspirational RomanceTime-slip

Kathryn, our heroine, is a “time crosser” who goes to sleep in 1888 Victorian London as Kathryn Kelly and awakens in London in 1938 as ...Read Review

The Letter Carrier

By Elettra Pauletto (trans.) - By Francesca Giannone - Published 2025

Genres:

Saga

It’s the rare woman in 1930s southern Italy who lives by her beliefs and refuses to downplay her intelligence, but Anna Allavena ...Read Review

Before Dorothy

By Hazel Gaynor - Published 2025

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Spanning the years 1924 to 1937, Before Dorothy fleshes out the life of a woman mentioned very briefly in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful ...Read Review

The Moon’s More Feeble Fire (The Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries)

By ALLAN GAW - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

This is the second in Allan Gaw’s Jack Cuthbert series.  The next two will follow later in the year. Gaw had already ...Read Review

Murder at the English Manor (A Miss Underhay Mystery, Book 20)

By Helena Dixon - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

The Miss Underhay mystery series is set in England during the 1930s, but this is the twentieth book: it’s 1937, Kitty is now ...Read Review

Under Darkening Skies

By Hilary Jones - Published 2025

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Will Burnett is a surgeon at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He is angry about the differences in health care for the rich ...Read Review

The Lilac People

By Milo Todd - Published 2025

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Bertie, a trans man, and his girlfriend Sofie have survived the Second World War by hiding in plain sight in rural Germany. When ...Read Review

The Pecan Sheller

By Lupe Ruiz-Flores - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Despite being an enthusiastic student and passionate writer, 13-year-old Petra Mendoza is forced to quit school and work in a pecan-shelling factory alongside ...Read Review

Bent but Not Broken (A Lexington, Alabama Novel)

By Mary Monroe - Published 2025

Genres:

Saga

This is a touching examination of the commitment to love, or lack of it, within a marital relationship and the roads down which ...Read Review

The Home Child

By LIZ BERRY - Published 2025

Genres:

LiterarySagaShort Stories

Here’s something unusual—a historical novel rendered almost entirely through a collection of poetry. Liz Berry is a much-lauded British poet, known ...Read Review