Gerald T. Burke
Underground
This novel opens with the protagonist, Albert Fraser, a 16-year-old Canadian volunteer, at the front during the battle of the…
Our Lady of the Night
This novel is set in Puerto Rico during the first half of the 20th century. It opens with the protagonist,…
No Less Than the Journey
The novel is set in the late 1870s. Wesley Curnow has emigrated from the Welsh coal mining country of Cornwall…
Enduring
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The novel encompasses the breadth of the 20th century as it follows the life of Latha Bourne, a resident of…
People of the Thunder
It’s about 1300 CE in what today is Mississippi and Alabama. The dominant Sky Hand people have quickly risen to…
Alamut
Bartol’s novel is set in 11th century Persia. The title is the name of the castle over which the self-proclaimed…
Exiles
Exiles tells the story of a relationship between five nuns exiled from Germany and the English poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins,…
Under Enemy Colors
It is 1793, and the French revolutionary wars are just getting underway. France and England battle for control of the…
The Maytrees
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The novel opens in Provincetown, Massachusetts, just after the Second World War. Toby Maytree, a thirty-year-old poet and part-time…
The Shadow Catcher
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The story opens in present-day Los Angeles. The fictional writer of a novel about Edward Curtis is meeting with Hollywood…
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