2007
Zugzwang
Zugzwang: a position in chess in which a player is obliged to move, though every move makes his position worse,…
The 47th Samurai
Two characters with the quintessentially American names of Earl and Bob Lee Swagger occupy center stage in this latest view…
Capote In Kansas: A Ghost Story
Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, two illustrious Southern authors: one flamboyant, brazen and pretentious, the other seemingly sensible and…
The Pleasure Trap
From childhood, Eve Dearing has been haunted by her mother’s death. She and her mother shared the gift of “sight,”…
The Kingdom Of Ashes
Set in the fictional town of Rehstadt, near Hanover in the British Zone of Occupation in 1946, this is a…
Loves Of Harriet Beecher Stowe
As every American schoolchild knows, or ought to know, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the great anti-slavery novel.…
The Air We Breathe
The First World War looms in the background of this intimate novel, which borrows slightly in themes and setting from…
Murder in Chinatown: A Gaslight Mystery
The murder of a lovely young Chinese-Irish-American girl from an affluent Chinatown family, shortly after her elopement with a handsome…
The Last Goodbye
This novel is the sequel to A Time to Remember. It is a love story set during the Second World…
Lieutenant Fury
1793. In France, the Royalists are clinging to power in Toulon, but the Republicans are gaining ground. Lieutenant Fury, returning…
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