Sarah Johnson
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
An intimate portrait of a flamboyantly public marriage, Z imagines Zelda Fitzgerald’s voice in this exhilarating account of a life…
Circles of Time
This second volume in Rock’s engrossing trilogy (after The Passing Bells) about the titled Grevilles of Abingdon Pryory in Surrey…
The Bookman’s Tale
Lovett’s enjoyable homage to books and bookishness opens, fittingly, in that literary magnet known as Hay-on-Wye in Wales. In 1995,…
Time’s Echo
Hartshorne’s engaging time-slip opens with one chilling scene after another. Hawise, a young Elizabethan woman, is drowned as a witch…
The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai
There’s nothing like fiction set in 12th-century Buddhist Japan to shake up one’s notions about feminine strength and bravery. Kozaishō,…
Maria and the Admiral
“We all have a story at our core that we may disown or admit. It is often about love.” In…
The Passing Bells
Readers should be forgiven if they delve into Phillip Rock’s former bestseller and initially find themselves picturing Downton Abbey’s famous…
The General’s Mistress
The nondescript title of Jo Graham’s fourth novel fits her heroine, a Dutch courtesan who becomes the lover, in turn,…
The Divining
Barbara Wood’s newest historical, about a woman’s spiritual journey through the 1st-century Roman world, is a mixed effort. The segmented…
To Take Her Pride
Growing up in the Yorkshire countryside in 1898, Aurora Pettigrew has almost everything a young woman could want: adoring parents,…
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