2017
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
Many thousands of words have been written about the Presidency of Harry S. Truman. This remarkable book is an intimate…
Flesh and Bones: Of Frome Selwood and Wessex
Archaeologist Annette Burkitt structures this work innovatively through her combination of the flesh (the fictional part of the text) and…
The Once and Future Queen: Guinevere in Arthurian Legend
This is a survey of the treatment of Guinevere, King Arthur’s queen, as she appears in literature from the earliest…
Lieutenant Kurosawa’s Errand Boy
This story of the lives of Nanban, Kurosawa, Papatti and her family, and the Japanese who took over Singapore during…
The Welsh Linnet
This is Book One of the War Without an Enemy series, set during the English Civil War. It opens in…
Curse of the Healer
Ireland in 1095 AD is made up of small, fractured clans, each with its own “king.” In the wake of…
Pocketful of Dreams
From an Irish East London wedding to the Battle of Britain, this book shows the Brogan family in love, tragedy…
Whirligig: Keeping the Promise
Editors' choice
The American Civil War seems an unlikely place for a young Englishman to wind up in the name of love,…
The Lopez Affair
In this 9th volume in the Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez, set in the late 1500s, Queen Elizabeth I reigns successfully…
Hope Unshackled
This novel is set in Connecticut in 1850, right after the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law allowing slave catchers…
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