2012
Martin of Gfenn
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In Martha Kennedy’s quiet, intensely moving novel Martin of Gfenn, the title character is given at a young age by his father ...Read Review
The House of Closed Doors
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The House of Closed Doors is a gripping story set in a small Midwestern town in the 1870s. The main character, Eleanor (Nell), ...Read Review
The Figurehead
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In 1840, Aberdeen on an early morning, the body of shipwright Jimmie Crombie is found on the beach as the tide recedes. While his ...Read Review
Mesmer’s Disciple
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A dark tale with a building sense of the eerie, Mesmer’s Disciple moves from the street violence of mid-19th Century New ...Read Review
The Gage Street Courtesan
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Under a layer of Victorian respectability, colonial Hong Kong was a seething hodgepodge of failed revolutionaries, crooks, opium dealers, Jewish refugees, pimps and ...Read Review
Sharavogue
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In this nicely written debut, a young girl, Elvy, curses Oliver Cromwell after he murders a boy from her Irish village. In the ...Read Review
Full Harvest
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Etka Gitel Schwartz originally published the stories that comprise Full Harvest in the pages of Binah magazine; they are here presented in a ...Read Review
The White Hawk
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England, 1459. Lancaster and York are at each other’s throats, plunged into civil war. The first of a series, this story of political ...Read Review
The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap
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Nevada, 1885, the news that Oscar Wilde has been imprisoned for acts of homosexuality has spread worldwide, and gossip and condemnation is rife. The ...Read Review
28 Bunkers
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28 Bunkers by Elizabeth Braun is an immaculately researched WWII drama about the Allied bombings of Ludwigshafen, an industrial city in Germany. Told in ...Read Review
