2009
Decision and Destiny
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The sisters who co-write as DeVa Gantt have hit their stride with the middle volume of their Colette trilogy (originally self-published as one ...Read Review
The Ingenious Edgar Jones
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Picture this: A meteorite spills a shower of stars into the sky one cold February night in 1847 Oxford, England. That same night, Edgar ...Read Review
The Hoard of Mhorrer
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Although not a straight historical novel, The Hoard of Mhorrer effectively blends fantasy with real historical events. This is a struggle of light ...Read Review
A Visible Darkness
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Magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis continues to grapple with his duties as a Prussian official in a land under the heel of Napoleon’s occupation ...Read Review
The Swan Maiden
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Every civilization has its Helen of Troy legend, and for Ireland during the Iron Age, that would be the story of Deirdre: a ...Read Review
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
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Students of the American Civil War have been blessed over the years by an astonishing number of truly talented scholarly and popular writers ...Read Review
Searching for Tamsen Donner
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In 1846 Tamsen Donner and her family left Springfield, Illinois, in search of a new life in California. In 1977 Gabrielle Burton and her family ...Read Review
Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant
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I first came across Archibald, Lord Wavell (1883-1950), through his popular poetry anthology Other Men’s Flowers. I knew little of his distinguished ...Read Review
The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London’s Most Notorious Prison
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Forget Alcatraz, the Bastille, or the Black Hole of Calcutta: the most notorious prison in history was surely Newgate. For over a century ...Read Review
A Voyage Long and Strange
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This is a travelogue rather than a history book, written by a journalist, not an historian. The Voyage Long and Strange is a ...Read Review
