2011
Vixen (The Flappers 1)
Chicago, 1924. Wealthy society schoolgirl Gloria moonlights as the lead singer for a black jazz band; her ‘country’ cousin Clara…
Whispers Through the House
In this companion to her novel The Long Journey Home, Means revisits the Minnesota prairies during the post-Civil War era…
Henry Tilney’s Diary
Henry Tilney’s Diary is a delightful retelling of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey from the hero’s point of view. Grange’s novel…
The Black Jackals
In the summer of 1940 during WW2, the British Expeditionary Force in France were forced to retreat. The 51st. Highland…
Amazulu
The year is 1818, and Shaka, the warrior king of the Zulus, is on the verge of consolidating a vast…
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
This beautifully imagined and written novel, which feels more like a literary biography than a fiction, tells the story of…
A Dark and Lonely Place
In 1911 John Ashley, a young man from rural Florida, was accused of robbing and murdering a Seminole. In this…
The Immortality Engine
Multiples of a single criminal are turning up dead at crime scenes in the streets of London. Veronica’s visionary sister…
Insurrection
Insurrection is the first part in Robyn Young’s trilogy about Robert the Bruce. The death of Alexander III of Scotland…
Cain
This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So…
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