Editors' Choice

Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Conqueror is the story of the renowned scholar and warrior Kublai Khan, but it is also the tale of those men who shaped ...Read Review

The Bow of Heaven: Book 1, The Other Alexander

By Andrew Levkoff - Published 2009

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Levkoff’s beautifully written and thrillingly good Roman historical novel opens with a crotchety 85-year-old man looking back on his eventful life and ...Read Review

A Play of Heresy

By Margaret Frazer - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

During the reign of Henry VI, Joliffe the Player returns to his travelling troupe as they prepare to assist the citizens of Coventry ...Read Review

The Sherlockian

By Graham Moore - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Anyone who has read even a few of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories featuring Sherlock Holmes knows that the author killed off his ...Read Review

The Sower of the Seeds of Dreams

By Bill Page - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

Roman Britain, 368 AD. Acting Primicerius Canio has become mixed up in the death of a suspected deserter who, in his dying breath, tells ...Read Review

The Printmaker’s Daughter

By Katherine Govier - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Readers will cherish this story and not soon forget the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1839). The famous painter of The Great Wave had ...Read Review

A Good Man

By Guy Vanderhaeghe - Published 2012

Genres:

Western

In the 1870s, the resistance of the Plains Indians to the inexorable advance of the United States was coming to its tragic and ...Read Review

On Canaan’s Side

By Sebastian Barry - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

The narrator of On Canaan’s Side, 89-year-old Lilly Bere, feels herself at the end of her life. She is the midst of ...Read Review

The Year After | The Last Summer

By Judith Kinghorn - By Martin Davies - Published 2011Published 2012

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Occasionally the accidents of publishing bring out two books in the same season which neatly complement each other. The Last Summer and The ...Read Review

The Time In Between

By María Dueñas - Published 2011Published 2012

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From Gone with the Wind to The Thorn Birds, the romantic epic is a tried-and-true favorite, invariably set during a tumultuous period in ...Read Review

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