James Hawking
Creole Son
In 1872, Edgar Degas left Paris to visit New Orleans, the birthplace of his deceased mother and the current home…
Cornelia: Moeder van de Gracchen
While looking back from her retreat in Misenium, Cornelia narrates the events that changed the nature of the Roman Republic.…
The Liars’ Gospel
The life of Yehoshuah (Jesus) is related from the perspective of four people who appear in the gospels, but each…
Wolves of the North
The fifth entry in distinguished classicist and military historian Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series sees the hero Ballista on…
Where Tigers Are at Home
Each chapter of this novel begins with a selection from a biography of the 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, purportedly…
A Plague of Lies
Right at the opening, this novel takes Hemingway’s advice to show “how the weather was” by vividly portraying a Paris…
Triple Play
Nate Heller’s cases involve known historical murders which the Chicago private detective solves and resolves. The first of the three…
Cervantes Street
This novel takes the biography of the creator of Don Quixote as the starting point for a tale of love…
The Dream of the Celt
The opening chapter presents Roger Casement under a sentence of death for treason because of his efforts to recruit Irish…
Spartacus
Historical novels, especially those dealing with well-known events, lack suspense. As we watch the slave army of Spartacus defeat one…
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