Phoenix
The Painter’s Daughters
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This biographical novel focuses on Margaret and Molly, the daughters of artist Thomas Gainsborough, taking them through their lives from childhood. The narrator, ...Read Review
The Witching Tide
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September 1645 brings trouble to the East Anglia village of Cleftwater. After several women are accused of witchcraft, Martha, a midwife, is assigned to ...Read Review
The Midnight News
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The author of the internationally best-selling Longbourn returns with a new novel that is so much more than the love and war story ...Read Review
Wheels of Terror
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The author, who died in 2012, was born in Denmark but served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. In his visceral and ...Read Review
Upon a Wheel of Fire
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Upon a Wheel of Fire is a thoughtful, era-spanning, epic novel that moves from WW1 through the interwar years to WW2 in Europe ...Read Review
The Fishing Fleet
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From the 19th to the mid-20th century, upper middle-class British families had a problem: there weren’t enough suitable men for their ...Read Review
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
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Lady Pamela Hicks is a well-known British aristocrat with a bloodline stemming from Queen Victoria, who was her great-great-grandmother. Prince Philip (married to ...Read Review
Bloody Winter
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Bloody Winter has two protagonists, and each tells his story in alternating chapters. The first narrator is the series’ Detective Inspector Pyke, who ...Read Review
History of a Pleasure Seeker
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Amsterdam, 1907. The protagonist of Mason’s silky bildungsroman (after Natural Elements, 2010), is determined to rise in the world. Handsome young Piet Baron plans ...Read Review
Tiger Hills
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This story follows the life of Devi, who was born in Coorg in southern India in 1878, the first girl to be born into ...Read Review