Ilysa Magnus
The Technologists
As the first class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – a ragtag amalgam of “charity” students and Harvard wannabes…
Queen without a Crown: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
In this ninth installment in the series, Ursula, now happily remarried and living a quiet existence as Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, seeks…
Kafka’s Leopards
1916: In a shtetl in Bessarabia, Czarist Russia, lives Benjamin Kantarovich, 19, nicknamed “Mousy,” whose sick friend, Yossi, asks him…
The Sister Queens
Marguerite and Eleanor are sisters, Savoyards living in the 13th century. Each young Provençal girl is married off to a…
The Chalice of Blood
It is 670 A.D., and Sister Fidelma is contemplating leaving the world of the religious and committing herself solely to…
Daughters of War (Leonora Trilogy)
Leonora Malham Brown is a fashionable young woman living with her grandmother in upscale London. She is bored, as probably…
Boudica’s Last Stand: Britain’s Revolt Against Rome AD 60-61
It is 60 A.D. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni and widow of Prasatagus, has formed a confederacy of tribes in…
The Midwife of Venice
In this beautifully conceived debut novel, Hannah, a young Jewish midwife living in the ghetto of Venice, has her late…
I am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian
Returning at age forty to the place of his enslavement by Irish slave traders at the age of sixteen, Patrick…
Elizabeth I
Editors' choice
How can an historical novelist up the ante on the life of Elizabeth I when so much has been written…
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