Nela Leja
Mandragora: A Ribald and Irreverent Tale from the Italian Renaissance
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Niccolo Machiavelli, Renaissance author of The Prince and father of political science, also wrote comedies such as La Mandragola (The Mandrake). His satire ...Read Review
Adele: Wilderness Bride – a novel of New France
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In the 1660s, when illegitimate orphan Adele Dupuy leaves for New France aboard a ship of similarly-disadvantaged young women, she is known as ...Read Review
A Love of Adventure
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In this 19th-century romance, Druett writes with a keen sense of irony. For example, in the midst of a storm around Cape Horn, ...Read Review
The Wind from Entouhonoron
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The Wind from Entouhonoron is aptly titled: the wind on the lake (now named Lake Huron) plays a pivotal role in this nautical ...Read Review
The Year-God’s Daughter
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Despite the fifth-century Greek statue on the cover, The Year-God’s Daughter takes place a thousand years earlier, in Crete. Aridela, the daughter ...Read Review
Blomqvist
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The eleventh century—a violent time of conquest and crusade in the name of Christianity. Through the eyes of a gotterdammerung pagan enfiefed ...Read Review
Love and Death in Paris
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Katrine Bouchet and Jack Lamont are awkward teenagers when they meet briefly in Paris in 1939. Three years later, when they next encounter each ...Read Review
The Isle of Kheria
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Some readers may shy away from John Cabot’s choppy, cursory, incomplete writing style, but I recommend leaping onto its back. Ride unsaddled ...Read Review
Wayfarers
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I found Wayfarers a satisfying read, with rich detail, realistic characters, a complex plot, and, most of all, a consistent point of view. ...Read Review
