2007
Cheap Diamonds
It’s New York in the early 1970s, and fresh-faced (though freakishly white-haired) Cherry Marshall from Arkansas has arrived with a…
The Wandering Ghost
Corporal Jill Matthewson, the first woman ever assigned to 2nd Division Military Police in the demilitarized zone of mid-1970s South…
Corsair: The Adventures of Hector Lynch
The unfortunate Hector Lynch certainly gets his fair share of adventures in this novel and is still only eighteen years…
St. Mungo’s Robin
This is the fourth book featuring Gil Cunningham, a notary, working and living in Glasgow in 1493. Suddenly, the warden…
Nefertiti: A Novel
Nefertiti is chosen to marry Amunhotep IV, heir to the throne ofEgypt, and her future of power and wealth seems…
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War
Go figure. Just when you think you know the rules of historical fiction—pitfalls to avoid such as anachronisms, being moralistic,…
Daughters of the Doge: A novel of Renaissance Venice
This is the second in the Richard Stocker series, quickly following on from the first novel published in 2006, In…
Cruel Choices
Paris in spring 1788 sees intrepid Anne Cartier and her husband Paul back home after their sojourn in Nice. The…
The Huntress
It is the year 1585, and a prophecy has foretold the coming of a Daughter of the Earth, the soon-to-be…
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Editors' choice
In this, journalist Vanora Bennett’s first novel, Meg Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More, springs brilliantly to life. Surrounded…
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