Alternate History
Black Chamber
World War I was a globally seismic and infinitely complicated event. The author rises to the challenge of creating an…
Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules
Helen Dale’s first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, won Australia’s Miles Franklin Award; she was the youngest recipient…
The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen, Vols. 1 and 2
At the age of 26, Jane meets Ashton Dennis at a ball in Bath. The following day Jane walks with…
False Lights
The strapline of this book is: ‘What if Napoleon, instead of Wellington, had won the Battle of Waterloo?’ Well, apparently…
An Army of One
It’s hard being a cop in dystopian universes! Police inspector John Rossett is just trying to serve and protect in the…
Hooper’s War
Although set in WWII Japan, it is re-imagined as if the atomic bombs were not unleashed and an invasion of…
Eagle and Empire
Editors' choice
Nine years after the annihilation of his legion at the hands of Cahokian braves and flying machines, Roman Praetor Gaius…
Retalio
This is the sixth in Alison Morton’s alternative history series set in Roma Nova—a recent-history world in which a remnant…
Amberlough
In this alternate history which is reminiscent of the 1920s, the glamorous city of Amberlough is home to underground agent…
The Turncoat’s Gambit
This is the finale to the Inventor’s Secret series by Andrea Cremer, following The Conjurer’s Riddle. Set in an alternate…
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