Kathryn Johnson

The Tin Ticket: Heroic Journey of Australia’s Convict Women

By Deborah J. Swiss - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

There’s a joke: A tourist passing through Customs in Sydney is asked by the agent if he has a criminal record. The ...Read Review

The Nun

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Simonetta Agnello Hornby - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

In 1839, young Agata has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre, and he with her. Unfortunately, Agata’s parents disapprove of the affair, ...Read Review

Mrs. Jeffries & the Mistletoe Mix-up

By Emily Brightwell - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In Brightwell’s latest in her series of Victorian mysteries, Mrs. Jeffries, housekeeper to Inspector Witherspoon, and the gang at Upper Edmonton Gardens ...Read Review

The Reservoir

By John Milliken Thompson - Published 2011

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Based upon an old Richmond, Virginia court case, The Reservoir is a complex first novel that is a simmering blend of Southern tragedy, ...Read Review

I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive

By Steve Earle - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

One doesn’t know quite what to expect when a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter of rock and country music – who is also an actor (...Read Review

Jamrach’s Menagerie

By Carol Birch - Published 2011

Genres:

AdventureHistorical FantasyNautical

Sometimes a novel comes along that one reads simply for the pleasure of enjoying the skill (or is it magic?) with which the ...Read Review

Fire on Dark Water

By Wendy K. Perriman - Published 2011

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Pirates, it seems, are in! The latest Pirates of the Caribbean film has just been released, a Pirates & Wenches festival has sprung ...Read Review

Prophecy

By S. J. Parris - Published 2011

Genres:

Thriller

Take a devious plot, a clutch of spies, a dash of counterspies, and set the story in Elizabethan England where politics and religion ...Read Review

To Be Queen

By Christy English - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Few women in the High Middle Ages have proven as complex, powerful, and enigmatic as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Through sheer will, she carved ...Read Review

Royal Pains: A Rogue’s Gallery of Brats, Brutes and Bad Seeds

By Leslie Carroll - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

If your view of royalty is romantic, complete with genteel ladies and gents, elegant soirees and lovely manners, you’ll never view them ...Read Review