2014
A Singular Captain
In 1518, the young king of Castile, Carlos V, decided to finance a five-ship expedition led by famous Portuguese navigator…
Kingdom of Rebels
Editors' choice
The Wars of the Roses has been well represented in Historical Fiction, so it is pleasant to find a story…
Albemarle
Albemarle is the story of a ship—and a battle for the control of a river—which had strategic consequences in the…
Spilt Milk
The Marsh sisters, Nellie and Vivian, are inseparable until the great flood of 1913 brings a charismatic but unreliable stranger…
The Night Julius Caesar Invented Champagne
“Each time you enjoy a glass of wine made of grapes from any of the now hundreds of thousands of…
The Lily and the Rose
In 1761 the North American colonies are a bone of contention. Timber and fur provide wealth for their British and…
American Baroque
Editors' choice
In the summer of 1835, three strangers saunter into Mohawk, Indiana: an urchin, a scruffy schoolteacher and a scruffier, cheerfully…
The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez
This is a Tudor book with a difference. The main focus is on a young Portuguese immigrant, Christoval, known as…
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of…
Beyond the Horizons
The Civil War is raging in the West. Mace Alexander of Tennessee, along with his three friends, is faced with…
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