Jazz Age
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
This is the story of a boy’s Christmas in Wales in the 1920s, beautifully and evocatively illustrated by Peter Bailey.…
The Prince’s Boy
In a book review, Ambrose Bierce once wrote: “The covers of this book are too far apart.” That same criticism…
Wolf Point
It’s the 1920s and Prohibition is at its peak in Wolf Point, Montana. Sheriff Andy Larson doesn’t want any part…
I Am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir
Sophie Tucker was certainly a force to be reckoned with. The daughter of immigrants, born in the late 19th century,…
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
1922. Hollywood is plagued by its first scandals; sensationalistic yellow journalism trumpets the poisoning of Olive Thomas and the murder…
The Woman Before Wallis
King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson are familiar, but Wallis was not the first scandal in Edward’s life. Marguerite Alibert,…
Night of a Thousand Stars
In Night of a Thousand Stars we meet Penelope “Poppy” Hammond March as she narrowly escapes her wedding ceremony to…
Evergreen Falls
The setting for this dual-period novel is a grand old spa in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and…
A Summer in the Twenties
First published in the UK in 1981 and now released in the United States this year, Dickinson’s chronicle of post-Great…
The Paying Guests
Editors' choice
Frances Wray, in her mid-twenties, lives in genteel poverty with her widowed mother in a large house in Camberwell, London.…
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