Kate Braithwaite
The Girl Behind the Wall
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August 13th, 1961. Karin Voigt, an aspiring fashion designer in her early twenties, falls ill on a visit to the eastern side of Berlin ...Read Review
John Brown’s Women
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Abolitionist John Brown’s remarkable life and family are vividly explored through the eyes of three women: his wife, Mary; his daughter-in-law, Wealthy; ...Read Review
Harlem Shuffle
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In 1960s Harlem, Ray Carney owns his own furniture store and is determined to prove himself as an honest businessman, in stark contrast ...Read Review
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
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Writer Roxane van Iperen lives near Naarden in the Netherlands, in a house called the High Nest which served as a Jewish safe ...Read Review
When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
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Two Feathers, commonly referred to simply as Two, is a horse-diver in a 1920s zoo and family entertainment park at Glendale in Nashville. ...Read Review
Leonora in the Morning Light
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Set in France during WW2, Leonora in the Morning Light is a novel about Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, two important figures in ...Read Review
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction
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Who still reads Georgette Heyer? Who are her best loved heroes and heroines? Why do so many describe reading Heyer as a guilty ...Read Review
The Glorious Guinness Girls
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Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh are the glorious Guinness girls, members of the dynastic brewing family, and part of the Bright Young Things, a ...Read Review
Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters: A Novel
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As the fourth child of seven from her parents’ marriage, and with an additional nine half-siblings born from her father’s second marriage, ...Read Review
The Book of Lost Friends
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Hannie Gossett is an eighteen-year old freed slave. In 1875 she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the Gossett family, on whose ...Read Review