Saga
Devil’s Brood
With her customary skill in depicting the personalities of medieval England’s most famously dysfunctional family, Penman delineates the…
The Forgotten Garden
In 1913 in London a little girl is abandoned on a ship taking emigrants to Australia. She can’t recall her…
The 19th Wife
If you are contemplating a polygamous lifestyle, this novel will talk you out of it. The author wants us to…
An Uncertain Dream
In the third novel of Miller’s Postcards from Pullman series, Pullman, Illinois, is in turmoil in 1894 as its railway…
The Gods of War
The Roman Empire. The action takes place largely in Italy and the Iberian peninsula and builds up to the fall…
The Journey
Editors' choice
In the introduction of The Journey the translator writes, “Neither Germany nor the world was ready for novels about the…
Caligula: The Tyranny of Rome
The third Roman emperor was the one they called Caligula, infamous in equal part for his cruelty and his insanity.…
Love and War
This is the second novel of an upstairs-downstairs saga featuring the families at Trenwith. Anyone who has not read the…
The Fields of Fortune
On the brink of being coerced into an unwanted marriage to an old, albeit rich, neighbour, young Nicola Templeton flees…
Ratoons
Ratoons, (n), shoots growing from the root of a plant (esp. sugar cane) that has been cut down…. or burnt.…
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