2008
The Watsons and Emma Watson: Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Completed
It must be a publishing truth universally acknowledged that unfinished works by famous authors shall be brought to a satisfactory…
Sword Song: The Battle for London
This is the fourth novel in The Saxon Tales series, which follows the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Bamburgh) during…
The Darcy Connection
Elizabeth Aston is the author of four previous novels about the daughters and other relations of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth…
Conspiracies of Rome
608 AD. Young Englishman Aelric is interpreter and secretary to Maximin, a priest, who is part of the Roman mission…
The Painted Lady
This is Restoration comedy, the eighth whodunit in the popular Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the young architect, is making his…
A Fatal Waltz
Vienna! “For the connoisseur of the waltz, there is no better place,” pens Lady Emily Ashton in the very beginning…
Mistress of the Sun
Editors' choice
In her first novel in eight years (following the international success of her Josephine B. trilogy), Sandra Gulland has chosen…
Song of the North
Roman Britannia, AD 366. Minna, a servant girl of mixed Roman and British blood, feels out of place and discontented…
The State Counsellor
I am a Boris Akunin fan, and the latest in his Erast Fandorin series does not disappoint. Fandorin is a…
The Lady Elizabeth
Editors' choice
How does a Princess Elizabeth become a Lady Elizabeth within a matter of days, the four-year-old wants to know? Her…
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