2012
Trade Winds to Meluhha
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“Samasin, an orphaned stable boy, rushes to help a foreigner sprawled with a slashed neck in a deserted tavern in Babylon. Gasping for ...Read Review
Fourth Crusade
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One of the larger blots on the history of Christianity is the debacle of the Fourth Crusade, which essentially ended in April 1204, when ...Read Review
The Venetian Bargain
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It is the year 1576 on the Christian calendar, and the Ottoman Sultan means to take revenge on the Venetians for destroying his 300-ship ...Read Review
The Secret Life of William Shakespeare
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We know little of the glovemaker’s son from Stratford. We know he was married at age 18 to Anne Hathaway, a woman six ...Read Review
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
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Set in a small Welsh town in 1924, Jones’ novel meanders through, as the title indicates, the thoughts and happenings of a young man ...Read Review
The Forbidden
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In 1873, on a French island colony, Paul Clément witnesses the ritual murder of a young man who has apparently risen from the ...Read Review
Dead Man’s Hill
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This is the sequel to Algar’s first novel, The Shepherd Lord, and continues the story of Lord Henry Clifford. Clifford, after his ...Read Review
The Reflecting Man
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Kurtis De’ath, the narrator of Boyd’s sprawling debut historical novel, is a “reflecting man” figure in the sense that through his ...Read Review
First Fury
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Against her parents’ wishes Ann, a native of Rochester, New York, leaves home with a man she believes she will marry. Abandoned instead, ...Read Review
Tuscan Rose
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Bright, musically talented with both flute and piano, and extraordinarily sensitive toward animals and people, Rosa Bellocchi has been raised by the nuns ...Read Review