Jasmina Svenne

Mistress of My Fate

By Hallie Rubenhold - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

In October 1789, fearing for her life, 17-year-old Henrietta Ingerton makes the fateful decision to flee from the only home she has ever known. ...Read Review

The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth

By Stuart Clark - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth follows the lives of Johannes Kepler, a German Lutheran who was the first man to mathematically prove how ...Read Review

The German Boy

By Patricia Wastvedt - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

Elisabeth Mander’s life is in turmoil. It’s 1947, and her dead sister’s teenage son, Stefan Landau, is coming to live with ...Read Review

Elizabeth I

By Margaret George - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

How can an historical novelist up the ante on the life of Elizabeth I when so much has been written about her and ...Read Review

Below Stairs

By Margaret Powell - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

Posthumously reprinted to coincide with the upsurge in interest in the Edwardian era due to the popularity of the television serials Downton Abbey ...Read Review

Aphrodite’s War

By Andrea Busfield - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Growing up half-wild in a village outside Keryneia in northern Cyprus, Loukis Economidou cares more about his mother Dhespina and his childhood sweetheart ...Read Review

Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace

By Lucy Worsley - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

In 1725 up-and-coming artist William Kent was commissioned by George I to decorate the walls alongside the King’s Grand Staircase at Kensington Palace. ...Read Review

Moonlight Over Denmark

By J. H. Schryer - Published 2010

Genres:

Thriller

Moonlight over Denmark is the tale of a small group of characters and their involvement in undercover operations in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943-1945. ...Read Review

The Holy Thief

By William Ryan - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Moscow 1936. When the mutilated body of a young woman is found on the altar of a deconsecrated church, Militia Captain Alexei Dmitriyevich Korolev ...Read Review

Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr

By Linda Porter -

Genres:

Nonfiction

As Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr has often been relegated to a footnote in history, or caricatured as a ...Read Review