Editors' Choice

The Expeditions

By Karl Iagnemma - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureLiterary

Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the spring of 1844, ...Read Review

The Bloodstone Papers

By Glen Duncan - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeSaga

This story about an Anglo-Indian family, and the bloodstone ring that was stolen from them during the last days of the British Raj, ...Read Review

Not Yet Drown’d

By Peg Kingman - Published 2007

Genres:

Adventure

Catherine MacDonald, a young Scottish widow who has temporarily settled into the Edinburgh home of her older brother, finds her quiet life suddenly ...Read Review

Bury Her Deep

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Captivating and beautifully written, this third book in the Dandy Gilver mystery series is set in 1920s Scotland. Our heroine, a respectable matron ...Read Review

Fire Bell in the Night

By Geoffrey S. Edwards - Published 2007

Genres:

New York Tribune reporter John Sharp arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1850 to cover a trial that will prove pivotal in Southern history. ...Read Review

Captain Wentworth’s Diary

By Amanda Grange - Published 2007

Genres:

Romance

In 1806 the young Frederick Wentworth visits Somerset and meets the young Anne Elliot. It is a meeting of minds and hearts, but there ...Read Review

The Mapmaker’s Opera

By Béa Gonzalez - Published 2006 (UK)Published 2007 (US)

Genres:

Literary

Praise for Béa Gonzalez’ The Mapmaker’s Opera abounds, with many critics and other reviewers comparing the author’s work to that ...Read Review

Here Lies Arthur

By Philip Reeve - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

South-west Britain, c. 500 AD. The Roman legions have left and Britain has splintered into warring factions. Saxons, arriving from the continent, are raiding ...Read Review

A Most Dangerous Woman

By L.M. Jackson - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1852. Mrs Sarah Tanner, a woman with a dubious past, opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms in Leather Lane. On witnessing the brutal ...Read Review

The Journal of Dora Damage

By Belinda Starling - Published 2007

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Dora Damage has a name straight from Dickens, and in fact her tale would not be out of place in that author’s ...Read Review

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