Biographical Fiction
The Fair Maid of Kent
Joan of Kent is a fascinating historical figure. Newark’s novel covers the early part of her life. Joan is cousin…
The Honest Spy
Fritz Kolbe, the honest spy, is not a fictional character. He was a high-level official in the German Foreign Office…
The Swan’s Road
Harald, son of Cnute, King of England, Denmark and Norway, sails for Rome. With him are his father, his father’s…
The Macedonian
In the north of Greece in the ancient kingdom of Macedon, a boy is born to a mother who despises…
The Ballad of Black Bart
Editors' choice
Charles Boles, aka Black Bart, is a genuine and fascinating historical character from America’s Western history in the late 1880s.…
The Lost Season of Love and Snow
Jennifer Laam’s third novel tells the ill-starred love story between Russia’s great poet, Alexander Pushkin, and his wife, Natalya. Told…
The Cardinal’s Man
With this book we are back in 17th-century France, with Louis XIII on the throne. He became king at the…
Fatal Rivalry
It is refreshing to read a description of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings that does not…
The Artist’s Muse
Vienna, 1907. At age twelve, the fatherless Wally Neuzil finds herself in Vienna with her frail mother and two sisters.…
Whisper of the Moon Moth
Whisper of the Moon Moth is an enchanting tale of a starlet’s rise to fame in Hollywood from humble and…
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