Book Review: The Kingmaker's Daughter
/Best-selling author Philippa Gregory's new novel tells the story of Anne and Isabel Neville, the Wars of the Roses ... and a certain misunderstood bad boy.
Read MoreBook Review: The Spymaster's Daughter
/The daughter of Queen Elizabeth I's chief of espionage has a mind of her own, and in addition to being a dutiful wife to Sir Philip Sidney, she has the makings of an intrepid intelligencer.
Read MoreBook Review: Jack 1939
/The improbable star of Francine Mathews' new WWII-era spy thriller: a thin, frail, relatively obscure ambassador's son from Brookline, Massachusetts named Jack Kennedy.
Read MoreBook Review: Equal of the Sun
/16th Century Iran comes alive in a new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Her Highness the Traitor
/A new novel tells the story of two women who played a very dangerous game for the biggest prize of all: the throne of England
Read MoreSupping with Glaucus: A Tour of Roman Historical Fiction
/Steve Donoghue takes the emperor’s box to thumbs-up or thumbs-down an array of Roman historical novels, as “A Year with the Romans” continues.
Read MoreBook Review: West Briton Story
/A novel of 6th century England, full of blood and mud and love and valor!
Read MoreBook Review: Watergate
/Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration
Read MoreBook Review: The Forest Laird
/A veteran historical novelist takes on that gigantic freedom fighter, William Wallace
Read MoreBook Review: Iago
/One of Shakespeare's greatest villains gets a novel of his own - is there creative life after the Bard?
Read MoreBook Review: The Deception at Lyme
/In Carrie Bebris' latest Jane Austen homage, the detective duo of Mr. & Mrs. Darcy take a vacation at Lyme, a location the proves scenic, fascinating - and deadly!
Read MoreBook Review: India Black and the Widow of Windsor
/High society madam and sometime-spy for the Crown, India Black investigates a threat to the life of Queen Victoria herself in Carol Carr's latest delightful romp.
Read MoreBook Review: The Favored Queen
/A new novel tries to infuse life and drama into the mousy, deferential person of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour
Read MoreBook Review: The Tudor Throne
/Two Tudor sisters fight for a throne - and love - in the latest historical fiction from Kensington Books
Read MoreBook Review: The Dovekeepers
/An ambitious historical novel (about the Jewish fortress of Masada) from a well-loved contemporary novelist
Read MoreBook Review: Theodora
/A lively and refreshingly blunt novel about one of the most fascinating - and polarizing - women in ancient history
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Tutankhamun
/An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.
Read MoreBook Review: Queen Defiant
/An involving new historical novel about the legendary (and all too real) Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Citizen Washington
/Twelve years after its first appearance, "Citizen Washington," a historical novel by bestselling author William Martin, gets an attractive new paperback just in time for about a million American summer vacations.
Read MoreAuthor Interview: Barry Connolly
/An interview with the author of the debut novel "The Good Thief"
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