Multi-Period

Secrets of the Sea House

By Elisabeth Gifford - Published 2013Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A young couple moves into an old house and uncovers a dreadful secret. This sounds like the beginning of a Victorian melodrama, and ...Read Review

A Man Against a Background of Flames

By Paul Hoggart - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

Appleby, a history lecturer, stumbles across records of a massacre in a Wiltshire village. His researches suggest that in 1594 the Bishop of Salisbury ...Read Review

The Silent Tide

By Rachel Hore - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeSaga

Two career-driven women in London’s competitive publishing industry over sixty years apart feature in Rachel Hore’s comfortably overstuffed saga, which has ...Read Review

A Guide for the Perplexed

By Dara Horn - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

The ancient Jewish scholar, Maimonides (the Rambam), who lived in the Middle Ages, wrote The Guide for the Perplexed, a philosophical guide to ...Read Review

Transatlantic

By Colum McCann - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

TransAtlantic is a sweeping tour-de-force of words, wit, and historical wonderment. The first half is comprised of three novellas: The first transatlantic non-stop ...Read Review

The Templar Prophecy

By Mario Reading - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

1190. Johannes Van Hartelius, a Bavarian knight, attempts to rescue the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, from drowning in Cicilia. Unsuccessful he does manage ...Read Review

Hunters in the Snow

By Daisy Hildyard - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

The first thing to say about this novel is that it is really not at all conventional historical fiction, yet it is of ...Read Review

Morning Glory

By Sarah Jio - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

After her divorce, Ada Santorini needs a big change in her life, so she impulsively moves across the country to live in a ...Read Review

Nine Days

By Toni Jordan - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This is not a historical novel in the conventional sense but a narrative consisting of nine vignettes, each taking place over the course ...Read Review

The Girl You Left Behind

By Jojo Moyes - Published 2013

Genres:

RomanceSaga

France, 1916. The Kommandant of the German soldiers who occupy the village of St. Péronne is a cultured man, but he’s capable ...Read Review