James Hawking
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov & the Dream of a Russian America
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Nikolai Rezanov attached himself to the court of Catherine the Great, giving him an opportunity to participate in what amounted to the colonization ...Read Review
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
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Nell Stillman, a schoolteacher widowed after an unhappy marriage, has a son who returns from WWI shell-shocked. Events like the sinking of the ...Read Review
Secessia
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In 1862, New Orleans was under Union government, but its population was largely sympathetic to the Confederacy. Benjamin Butler, in charge of the city, ...Read Review
Brothers in Blood: Roman Legion 13
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The latest entry in Scarrow’s Roman Series begins in 52 AD, with the pursuit of a secret agent through the streets of Rome. ...Read Review
The Brotherhood of Book Hunters
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Louis XI wants Paris to be the center of the book trade that is emerging after Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. ...Read Review
The Tutor
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The discovery of the body of a murdered priest begins the story of Katharine de L’Isle, a childless young widow living with ...Read Review
Portrait in Black and Gold
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Historical novels frequently tell the story of a woman succeeding in the even more male-dominated societies of the past. This fictional biography of ...Read Review
I Once Knew Vincent
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For a little over a year, Vincent Van Gogh lived with Clarina Maria Hoornik (Sien), an alcoholic prostitute. Her eight-year-old daughter Maria (Little ...Read Review
Finished Business
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In 1997 TLS announced that Richard Lee was starting the Historical Novel Society. I wrote him a letter expressing an interest in Roman novels ...Read Review
Perfidia
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Four Japanese Americans are murdered on the day before Pearl Harbor, opening a book which could be called a police procedural when police ...Read Review