Eva Ulett
Voices of the Desert
A retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, Nélida Piñon’s Voices of the Desert is concerned not with the tales…
Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
The Bonaparte clan depicted in Flora Fraser’s biography could rival any reality TV family for scandal. Pauline Bonaparte is thought…
The Talisman Ring
Miss Thane, the sensible female in Georgette Heyer’s The Talisman Ring, sums up the problem for her rather thick brother,…
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy depicts the first months of matrimony of the famous couple from Pride and Prejudice. The…
The Dakota Cipher
A highly entertaining quest tale, The Dakota Cipher finds American adventurer Ethan Gage on a mission in the Louisiana Territory…
Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty
Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile enters the Royal Navy in 1787 in the same way as many other 18th-century lower-class English…
Human Love
In a crude dwelling on the border of Angola and Zaire, two imprisoned men meet during a shocking night of…
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol II, The Kingdom of the Waves
Editors' choice
African-American youth Octavian escapes with his trusted tutor Doctor Trefusis from the eccentric Bostonian gentlemen who raised him as a…
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