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The Time of the Wolf: A Novel of Medieval England
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The landmark year 1066 has given nourishment to many historical novelists, including now the first-time historical novel author James Wilde. (Wilde is the pen ...Read Review
The Werewolf of Paris
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Werewolves are enjoying a fine romp across current literature and cinema. Though the filming techniques were cheesy, watching Lon Chaney transform from wolf ...Read Review
Shooting Victoria
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Shooting Victoria is not just another biography of the illustrious queen or a history about the eponymous era she generated. Murphy takes the ...Read Review
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants
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In her latest book, biographer Alexandra Popoff profiles six literary spouses—Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, and ...Read Review
Spartacus
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Historical novels, especially those dealing with well-known events, lack suspense. As we watch the slave army of Spartacus defeat one Roman army after ...Read Review
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
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The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that century ...Read Review
Magic Words
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I reached the end of this book expecting to find out that most of the story and characters were fictional, but Kolpan’s ...Read Review
Death in August
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Set in Florence in 1963, this murder mystery offers the delights and peculiarities of Italy. As the city melts in August heat, Inspector Bordelli ...Read Review
Hawkwood
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The Bow Street Runners, generally accepted as London’s first professional police force, was founded in 1749 and operated in London until 1839, when the ...Read Review
Beyond the Ties of Blood
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Being too warm is a small price to pay for Boston academic Eugenia Aldunate. She wears long sleeves at all times, to preclude ...Read Review