Kristen McDermott
The Chocolate Maker’s Wife
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Fate literally smacks pretty Rosamund Tomkins in the head as she flees her abusive stepfamily and drab life as a tavern wench in ...Read Review
Finding Dorothy
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It’s hard to imagine a more essentially American life than Maud Gage Baum’s. The wife of the author of the beloved ...Read Review
The Philosopher’s War (The Philosophers Series Book 2)
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AdventureHistorical FantasyMilitary
Miller continues the exciting alternate World War I adventure begun in The Philosopher’s Flight, picking up where the original volume left off ...Read Review
Grievous: A Novel
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This intense, unwieldy, and moving narrative about lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation is the sequel to the critically celebrated Wilberforce, set, like ...Read Review
In Another Time: A Novel
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Hanna Ginsberg awakens in the middle of a field near Berlin with no memory of how she got there. The kindly nuns who ...Read Review
Tombland (Shardlake)
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Fans of Sansom’s celebrated Tudor mysteries know that he offers far more than the standard murder mystery. His novels surround the formulaic ...Read Review
We Shall See the Sky Sparkling
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Lily Throop is an unusual heroine: an accomplished young actress who finds very little time actually to perform her beloved Shakespearean roles, even ...Read Review
A Far Horizon (Broken Kingdom)
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This is the sequel to Vantrease’s The Queen’s Promise, a narrative of King Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, and the English ...Read Review
That Churchill Woman
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Luminous, passionate, rebellious Jennie Churchill, Winston’s glamorous mother, has inspired many biographies and novels. The latest, by Stephanie Barron, author of the ...Read Review
The General’s Cook
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It’s no mystery why so many historical novels have featured cooks as protagonists – food is one of the most vivid windows into ...Read Review