Farrar Straus & Giroux (US)

Winnie and Wolf

By A.N. Wilson - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The title refers to Winifred Wagner, the English wife of Richard Wagner’s son Siegfried, and Wolf, the self-chosen nickname of Adolf Hitler. ...Read Review

The Night of the Burning

By Linda Press Wulf - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This novel tells the true story of Devorah and Nechama Lehrman, the only survivors of a massacre of the Jews in their Polish ...Read Review

Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon

By Mark Bostridge - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

What could a brilliant, wealthy young woman do in Victorian England if marriage did not entice her, and domestic spinsterhood could not contain ...Read Review

Tree Of Smoke

By Denis Johnson - Published 2007

Genres:

Military

William “Skip” Sands is training for his CIA job as a spy in Psychological Operations against the Viet Cong in 1960s South Vietnam. ...Read Review

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By David Gilmour - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

There was a time when the mention of India, and specifically England’s administration of the Subcontinent, was a matter of pride. Such ...Read Review

The Religion

By Tim Willocks - Published 2006 (UK)Published 2007 (US)

Genres:

Adventure

British novelist Tim Willocks is good at evoking the unfamiliar, so perhaps it’s inevitable that he should turn eventually to historical fiction. ...Read Review

Ordinary Heroes

By Scott Turow - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Military

Stewart Dubinsky’s father never spoke of his experiences during WWII. After his death Stewart sorts through his deceased father’s papers and ...Read Review

Yankee Girl

By Mary Ann Rodman - Published 2004 (US)Published 2005 (UK)

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Yankee Girl is about a young American girl, Alice, who has just moved to Mississippi from her home in Chicago. At the time ...Read Review