Sally Zigmond
The Pagan House
Thirteen-year-old Eddie Pagan (or Edgar as he prefers to be called) travels from London to New York State to visit…
The Grail Enigma : The Hidden Heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene
The theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and founded a dynasty inextricably entwined with the search for the Holy…
Figures in Silk
Vanora Bennett’s debut was the fascinating Portrait of an Unknown Woman. In her second novel, she turns her attention to…
The Principessa
Editors' choice
We first met the Firemaster, Francis Quoynt, embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot in the pages of The Firemaster’s Mistress. As…
The Coal Gatherer
Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living…
Measuring the World
On a prosaic level—and this novel is anything but prosaic—this is the story of two contrasting figures of the German…
Murder on the Eiffel Tower
June 1889. The Eiffel Tower is the most popular exhibit of the Paris Exposition and thousands flock each day to…
Burning Bright
The novel takes its title from what is probably William Blake’s most famous poem, and its premise is the contrasting,…
The Sixth Wife
This is the author’s second foray into historical fiction. The Queen of Subtleties told the story of Anne Boleyn. Here…
The Scarlet Lion
Editors' choice
This novel is a sequel to The Greatest Knight which told the early story of William Marshal, although any reader…
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