Short Stories
Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
Henry VIII is King of England and desperate for a male heir. The extent to which he goes to attain…
No Holds Bard
Manifold Press has delivered a delightful collection of Shakespeare tales, revised and revisited for a modern audience and with an…
The Trading Post and Other Frontier Stories
This anthology contains fourteen short traditional Western and American frontier stories, selected and edited by Hazel Rumney, set up to…
American Histories
In his new short story collection, American Histories, John Edgar Wideman explores current situations by delving into the past, a…
Voices of the Second World War: A Child’s Perspective
There are nearly 40 authors of this book, 26 of them telling stories mainly of four to six pages, and…
The Silver Well
Editors' choice
Many of the world’s mystical places have remained so for centuries, even millennia. In this absorbing collection, the authors present…
Wild West
It’s not all guns, horses and cattle. This charming collection of 11 American classic short stories of the West by…
Call to Arms: Modern LGBTQ+ Fiction of the Second World War
Thirteen authors write about living in the LGBTQ world in England, Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere during the 1940s,…
Stories of Inspiration: Historical Fiction Edition, Volume 1
This book is a little different from most we review in this publication because it is an anthology of essays…
The Tsar of Love and Techno
This is a series of interconnected stories that dwell upon the state of the Soviet Union and Russia. They begin…
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