Time-slip
Hidden Doorways
In Ms Thorley’s novel, Catherine is sent hurling from one time period to the other, all of this starting on…
The Outcasts of Time
Editors' choice
Two brothers, John and William, one a stonemason and the other a wool merchant, walk home in December 1348, passing through a Devon landscape devastated by plague. Trying to do a…
The Man of Legends
In 2001, several lives intersect in New York City as different individuals begin to track the mysterious Will, who appears…
A Strange Scottish Shore
Scotland, 1906. While renovating a castle in the Orkney Islands, the new owner discovers a strange suit, like a selkie…
The Dream Keeper’s Daughter
A relaxed pace and descriptive indulgence characterize this tantalizing tale of supernatural time travel. The story opens in Barbados, where archaeologist…
We’ve Come to Take You Home
This debut takes us into the lives of two 15-year-old girls: Sam Foster, who lives in modern-day England, and Jess Brown,…
The Cavalier Historian
Robert Hardwick has been hired to help develop an English Civil War-period themed attraction at Marston Manor. While paging through…
The Jane Austen Project
Part science fiction, part fan fiction, this enjoyable adventure takes a common fantasy—traveling into the past to meet one’s favorite…
A Twist in Time
Kendra Donovan is a crack FBI agent—or was, until she fell through a time anomaly and wound up in 1815…
The Scribe of Siena
In her debut novel, Winawer scratches one of my literary itches: plague! There is rather a shortage of decent novels…
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