Phyllis T. Smith
Abandon
In 2009, Abigail Foster, a journalist enticed by the prospect of a good story, is recruited by her estranged father,…
Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty
Twenty years ago, journalist Michael Karpin began to write the life story of a successful Brazilian businessman who was a…
The Last Divine Office: Henry Vlll and the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Beginning in 1536, claiming the loftiest motives, Henry VIII began the dissolution of the monasteries of England. As Geoffrey Moorhouse…
Execution Dock
William Monk, hero of a series of Victorian crime novels by Anne Perry, is a favorite of mine because he…
The Help
Editors' choice
In 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter, a young white aspiring journalist, comes home from Ole Miss and decides to document…
City of the Dead: A Seven Wonders Novel
When Pharaoh’s chief wife is found dead, Hemiunu, the Grand Vizier who oversees the building of the Great Pyramid, is…
The Fall of the Templars
In this novel, set in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Will Campbell, a Knight Templar, returns to Europe…
Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
What could a brilliant, wealthy young woman do in Victorian England if marriage did not entice her, and domestic spinsterhood…
The Republic of Vengeance
In the late third century BC, Marcus, a 14-year-old Roman journeying to Greece with his father, is captured by pirates.…
To Hold The Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
This novel, a reissue of Uneasy Lies the Head, published in 1982, tells the story of the reign of Henry…
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