Great Depression
All Waiting Is Long
Sisters. Good relationships or bad, they are fraught with rivalry, jealously, and loyalty. Such it is with Violet and Lily…
Design for Dying
I’m a sucker for a Hollywood mystery, and Design for Dying fit the bill perfectly. Set in Los Angeles in…
Death of a Siren
This is a well-paced detective story set in the pre-World War II Galapagos. Fred Freiman is a former New York…
The Broken Hours: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft
It is 1936, and even wealthy Providence, Rhode Island suffers in the grip of the Depression. Arthor Crandle, estranged from…
Rare Objects
Maeve Fanning, an educated young Irish American in Depression-era Boston, wants to move forward in life, and aims high. When…
The Airshipmen
This book is a clear labour of love, impressive for its technical detail, research and knowledge of aviation history. The…
Echoes from Afar
London, 1936. After spiteful rumours force her out of her nursing job, Annabelle Blake flees to Paris to stay with…
Blue Moon
Ruby Bateman works as a chambermaid in the best hotel in Worthing, Sussex, a good job during the Depression. However,…
I Survived: The Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
Tarshis’s latest installment in the I Survived series for ages 7 to 10 recounts the horrors of the Hindenburg disaster…
Journey to Munich
Europe appears to be teetering on the brink of another war with Germany when Maisie Dobbs finally returns to London…
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