2014
The Lily and the Rose
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In 1761 the North American colonies are a bone of contention. Timber and fur provide wealth for their British and French overlords, but the ...Read Review
Albemarle
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Albemarle is the story of a ship—and a battle for the control of a river—which had strategic consequences in the final ...Read Review
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant
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Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels have sparked a renewed interest in Thomas Cromwell, a man best known for engineering Anne Boleyn’s fall. ...Read Review
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
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In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of what we think ...Read Review
Beyond the Horizons
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The Civil War is raging in the West. Mace Alexander of Tennessee, along with his three friends, is faced with fighting the Union ...Read Review
American Baroque
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In the summer of 1835, three strangers saunter into Mohawk, Indiana: an urchin, a scruffy schoolteacher and a scruffier, cheerfully inebriated preacher dressed in ...Read Review
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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This novel is a silly romp through the Australian Museum collection in 1932. Archie Meeks returns home to his fiancée, Beatrice, after five ...Read Review
Kingdom of Rebels
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The Wars of the Roses has been well represented in Historical Fiction, so it is pleasant to find a story in which the ...Read Review
The Night Julius Caesar Invented Champagne
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“Each time you enjoy a glass of wine made of grapes from any of the now hundreds of thousands of vineyards, you participate ...Read Review
A Singular Captain
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In 1518, the young king of Castile, Carlos V, decided to finance a five-ship expedition led by famous Portuguese navigator and sea-captain, Ferdinand Magellan. ...Read Review