Renaissance
The Creation of Eve
The Creation of Eve is Cullen’s first foray into adult fiction, and it is quite a promising beginning. The story…
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Editors' choice
Catherine de Medici came to the French court as a reluctant princess: young and naive, and yet somehow she knew…
The Secret of the Glass
In the early 17th century, the art of glassblowing is highly respected by the Venetian government, and some of its…
The Devil & Maria d’Avalos
The year is 1590; the setting rich with art, magnificent architecture, lavish costumes. Yet all is not right in Denmark……
A Woman of Seville
At noon each day, Paula Sanchez, a courtesan in the city of Seville, enters the Mercedarian convent along with the…
Twilight of a Queen
The titular queen in the fifth novel in Carroll’s 16th-century saga is Catherine de Medici, dowager queen of France, whose…
Tomato Rhapsody
Set in 16th-century Italy, this first novel by Adam Schell is advertised as “a fable of love, lust and forbidden…
Hue and Cry
St. Andrews, Scotland, 1579. A young lawyer, Hew Cullen, returns home from France. His welcome home is lukewarm even from…
The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
Catherine de Medici is perhaps one of the most maligned women in history. It appears, however, in Kalogridis’s deft interpretation…
The Sting of Justice
Editors' choice
Mara, the Brehon judge, attends the funeral of a local priest little expecting that his will not be the only…
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