Editors' Choice

Prince

By Rory Clements - Published 2011

Genres:

Thriller

It is the year 1593, and England is a powder-keg of rumour and fear. Plague threatens London, famine is rife and the aged queen (...Read Review

Prophecy

By S. J. Parris - Published 2011

Genres:

Thriller

Take a devious plot, a clutch of spies, a dash of counterspies, and set the story in Elizabethan England where politics and religion ...Read Review

The Wordsmith’s Tale

By Stephen Edden - Published 2011

Genres:

In 1087, Thomas the Piper recounts the heartwarming, spellbinding hundred-year history of his family. He comes from a long line of story-weavers and wants ...Read Review

Birth of the Kingdom

By Jan Guillou - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

Epic

It is the year 1192 when the legendary crusader, Sir Arn Magnusson, returns from Outremer with a string of Arabian horses, builders, engineers, and ...Read Review

The King’s Witch

By Cecelia Holland - Published 2011

Genres:

It’s hard these days to find a writer who doesn’t let you down. Who delivers, time and again, an exciting and ...Read Review

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

By Jenny Wingfield - Published 2011

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Samuel Lake and his family are used to moving to a different town every year. Samuel is a preacher, and though he is ...Read Review

The Watery Part of the World

By Michael Parker -

Genres:

Literary

Although she is one of the best-educated and most brilliant women of her time, the history books are silent on the ultimate fate ...Read Review

The Hand of Fatima

By Ildefonso Falcones - By Nick Caistor (trans.) - Published 2010

Genres:

In 1564, after years of Christian oppression, the Moors of Granada exact a terrible revenge against their masters: after the ensuing bloodbath, the white ...Read Review

The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan le Fay

By Alex Epstein - Published 2011

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In the beginning she is Anna. Her father is Gorlois, lord of Trigos, and her mother is Ygraine, the beautiful Roman from Brittany. ...Read Review

Queen of Kings

By Maria Dahvana Headley - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy

The passionate, tangled, and tragic story of Cleopatra and Marc Antony receives a new and surprising twist in this engrossing novel. Did Cleopatra ...Read Review

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