WW1
Without Warning: Ellen’s Story, 1914-1918
Without Warning is narrated by the heroine, Ellen Wilkins, who is almost fifteen at the outbreak of World War…
Archie’s War
When World War I broke out in 1914, Archie Albright was ten years old. He had just started his own,…
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Misperceptions about Mata Hari abound—many due to the persona that she herself promulgated with convenient lies. Though often thought to…
Dizzy City
Benedict Cramb is a young Londoner born into poverty who learned to use his cunning and wits to claw his…
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911
“I have been born at the end of the age of peace and can’t expect to feel anything but despair,”…
Tomorrow The World
I’d heard raves about John Biggins’s novels set in the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now I understand…
Zugzwang
Zugzwang: a position in chess in which a player is obliged to move, though every move makes his position worse,…
The Air We Breathe
The First World War looms in the background of this intimate novel, which borrows slightly in themes and setting from…
The Last Summer Of The World
Editors' choice
Rarely does a book present the delicate balance of the relationship between a man and a woman as well as…
The Indian Clerk
The first issue a historical fiction writer needs to solve is how much research to include. Too little and the…
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