Helene Williams
Been Here a Thousand Years
Life has always been hard in the small southern-Italian farming village of Grottole. The inhabitants give their all to the…
Haunting Bombay
Bombay, India, in the summer of 1960 is a city crowded with color, politics, and ritual; it’s hot and humid,…
Once on a Moonless Night
Editors' choice
This latest novel from the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is another tour de force of intertwined…
Stranger Room
The fifth title in the Ike Schwartz series finds the erstwhile sheriff of Picketville, Virginia, with a murder on his…
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
This sprawling tale isn’t so much about Agustin de Iturbide y Green, the grandson of the first Mexican Emperor, Agustin…
The Swan Maiden
Every civilization has its Helen of Troy legend, and for Ireland during the Iron Age, that would be the story…
The King James Conspiracy
In 1604 King James of England declared his desire to have a definitive translation of the Bible, and by…
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age
For American readers, the phrase “lost generation” conjures up the names Hemingway and Fitzgerald and other arty types who spent…
A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury
Fans of the inimitable Phryne Fisher will rejoice in this cornucopia of short stories, recipes, lists of Phryne’s favorite things,…
Hold My Hand
Bridget Fletcher—make that Sweeney—is trying to free herself and her young daughter from a violent, stalker ex-husband and a life…
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