Steve Donoghue
Lewis & Clark: Murder on the Natchez Trace
The death of Meriwether Lewis (of the famed Lewis & Clark expedition) in 1809 has been a bone of historical…
Prove a Villain
After two years spent away from Elizabethan London, young Hugh Seaton has returned to the Theatre in Shoreditch and to…
West Briton Story
Rhuadrac, the main character and narrator of Tom O’Rourke’s fantastic debut novel West Briton Story, is an old man (only…
Eromenos
Melanie McDonald, in her slim, lyrical debut Eromenos, re-creates the story of the Roman emperor Hadrian’s all-consuming infatuation with the…
Blood and Ink
On May 20th, 1593, incendiary playwright Christopher Marlowe came before Queen Elizabeth I’s Privy Council to answer pointed questions about…
Neither Rebel Nor Tory: Hanyost Schuyler & The Siege of Fort Stanwix
Readers glancing at a summary of Michael Cooney’s novel Neither Rebel Nor Tory—the story of Hanyost Schuyler, a young man…
Lessons in Love
In Lessons in Love, the first volume in Charlie Cochrane’s murder mystery featuring St. Bride’s College professors Jonty Stewart and…
In All His Glory
At one point toward the end of Tom Howard Reid’s fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable novel In All His Glory, the…
Days of Smoke
Part of historical fiction’s job is to use the arsenal of imagination in order to elicit sympathy from us readers…
1066: The Healer
The neat, clever conceit animating John Wright’s novel The Healer is a simple, persistent reminder to the complacency of modern-day…
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