Two Roads
Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter
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For anyone interested in World War II (and who isn’t?), opening this book is like opening a treasure chest. Having read Erik ...Read Review
The Year Without Summer
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In April 1815, Mount Tambora erupted on Sunbawa, killing as many as 12,000 islanders. Glasfurd places this eruption, still known as the most lethal in ...Read Review
Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley
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In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again ...Read Review
The Butcher’s Hook
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Janet Ellis has written a startling and original historical novel in The Butcher’s Hook. The smart, astute and fascinating heroine and mesmerising ...Read Review
The Words in My Hand
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The Words in My Hand, the debut novel from Guinevere Glasfurd, tells the story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in the 17th ...Read Review
Church of Marvels
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This is a book of hate and violence. Starting in a fairground on New York’s Coney Island in 1895, a mother and her ...Read Review
At the Water’s Edge
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Maddie lives life to the fullest in 1945, partying continuously with her wealthy friends and getting herself involved in escapades with her husband, Ellis, ...Read Review
Love & Treasure
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At the end of WWII, American soldier Jack Wiseman, a Jew, is assigned to look after a trainload of “items” shipped from Hungary ...Read Review
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
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As in Loving Frank, Horan has again re-imagined life with a famous man through his love interest. American Fanny Osbourne leaves her cad ...Read Review
The Stockholm Octavo
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The Stockholm Octavo is set in 18th-century Stockholm against the background of the last years of Sweden’s Golden Age and the spread ...Read Review