2014
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant
Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels have sparked a renewed interest in Thomas Cromwell, a man best known for engineering Anne Boleyn’s…
Us Conductors
Sean Michaels’ debut novel has already won Canada’s 2014 Scotiabank Giller prize and deservedly so. It is a fictionalised account…
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…
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