2008
The Winter Sea
Historical subjects come to life for a modern novelist in Kearsley’s fascinating The Winter Sea. To explain how and why…
The Museum’s Secret
Eleven-year-old Tom Scatterhorn has problems. His mother has gone to Mongolia to find his missing entomologist father, and Tom must…
Bitter Eden
This work is based on the author’s experience of being captured in the North African campaign and landing in an…
Tatiana and Alexander: A Love Story
Eighteen-year-old Tatiana has escaped from the Soviet Union, but the fate of her husband, Alexander, is unknown. Alexander, born in…
The Life of Mary Queen of Scots: An Accidental Tragedy
Mary Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Elizabeth I, in 1587. Why does Roderick Graham call…
Shadow Country
Originally written as one enormous 1500‑page novel, Shadow Country was released as three separate volumes in the 1990s. This version…
Eleanor the Queen
First published in the 1950s and set in 12th-century France and England, Eleanor the Queen follows Eleanor of Aquitaine from…
Vanessa and Virginia
In London between the wars, artist Vanessa Bell and her sister, the author Virginia Woolf, members of the influential Bloomsbury…
Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano
The author’s search for a second-hand harpsichord on which to play early music led her on a journey that will…
Last Nocturne
A young artist on the verge of success throws himself out of his window, to be impaled on the iron…
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