Editors' Choice

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

A Lily of the Field

By John Lawton - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no ordinary murder/...Read Review

The Brahms Deception

By Louise Marley - Published 2011

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Kristian North is a handsome, talented, and perpetually broke pianist who has lost everything important to him: his Julliard scholarship, his Ph.D. ...Read Review

The Sisters Brothers

By Patrick deWitt - Published 2011

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

Speaking as someone who won’t read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove because it’s a Western, won’t see the evidently delicious ...Read Review

The Raven Queen

By Jules Watson - Published 2011

Genres:

EpicHistorical Fantasy

Other writers have tackled Ireland’s Iron Age legends and their compelling magic, a magic thoroughly mixed with the earthy business of cattle ...Read Review

Stones for my Father

By Trilby Kent - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Corlie has grown up on the Transvaal of South Africa, living with her mother and brothers on a small farm where she learns ...Read Review

Lights on the Nile

By Donna Jo Napoli - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Lights on the Nile is the newest title in Donna Jo Napoli’s growing list of fairy tale retellings. Many of her previous ...Read Review

The Grasshopper’s Run

By Siddhartha Sarma -

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

(1) 1944, Assam. World War II is raging, and the Japanese have swept through Burma towards India. The psychopathic Japanese general, Moti, has ordered the ...Read Review

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