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