Multi-Period

Imagining Vietnam

By Elizabeth McLean - Published 2012

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

McLean gives us a pocket history of Vietnam in the form of eight short stories, each set in a period of the country’...Read Review

The Visitor

By Katherine Stansfield - Published 2013

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This debut novel has two time frames, 1880 and 1936, and begins in Morlanow, Skommow Bay (Fowey), Cornwall, when Pearl and her husband Jack have ...Read Review

The Secrets of Armstrong House

By Andrew O’Connor - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Secrets of Armstrong House is about, in the main, Charles Armstrong, a flighty, difficult, unreliable sort of fellow – the heir to the ...Read Review

Homeland

By E. V. Thompson - Published (c1991)Published 2013

Genres:

Saga

I have always enjoyed E.V.Thompson’s books, and this one did not disappoint. The story starts in 1817 just as the Scottish ...Read Review

New Stars for Old

By Marc Read - Published 2013

Genres:

Short Stories

Being an astronomy buff, I was fascinated by this collection of fictional scenes and letters, giving glimpses of the history of astronomy through ...Read Review

What Is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

By John H. Arnold (ed.) - By Sean Brady (ed.) - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

This five-part book collects essays arising from a conference held at Birkbeck College, University of London in May 2008, asking ‘What is Masculinity? How ...Read Review

The Dig: In Search of Coronado’s Treasure

By Sheldon Russell - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Jim Hunt is desperate for a change. After losing his archeology scholarship, his girlfriend walks out on him and their infant daughter. Without ...Read Review

Fashioning History: Current Practices and Principles

By Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a book on historical practice and the methods used to fashion the past. How should historians position themselves in order to ...Read Review

My Ghosts

By Mary Swan - Published 2013

Genres:

LiterarySaga

It might be said that Canadian author Mary Swan’s latest novel, My Ghosts, isn’t for everyone. Readers, for example, who like ...Read Review

Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain Since 1880

By Lesley A. Hall - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a book dealing with wide-ranging and controversial themes within the scope of sex and gender issues in Britain: from sex within ...Read Review