Harper
Palace Circle
Editors' choice
It’s been a long time since I was as caught up in a novel as I was in Palace Circle.…
A Silent Ocean Away
In 1833 Richmond, Virginia, fifteen-year-old Charmaine Ryan leaves poverty behind when she takes a job as companion to wealthy Loretta…
Claudia: Daughter of Rome
Claudia: Daughter of Rome is set in the early years of the Roman Empire, when the empire is consolidating its…
City of the Absent
If you ever craved the simpler life that was prevalent, say, before the turn of the century, reading this…
The Outcast
Editors' choice
Set in a middle-class commuter town in southern England in the late 1940s and 1950s, this is a highly…
Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
Phyllida Lewis is a young woman of modest means whose distance from the epicenter of the Regency marriage mart has…
Annette Vallon
Although I’m not a fan of novels written by men from a woman’s point of view, Annette Vallon disposed of…
An Expert in Murder
This is the first in a projected murder mystery series featuring the author Josephine Tey. There are now many…
Crossed
An unnamed British musician is the protagonist in Galland’s new book, in which the disastrous Fourth Crusade forms the backdrop.…
The Sixth Wife
Set during the reign of England’s Edward VI, Suzannah Dunn’s fictionalized account of the final two years of the life…
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