Book Review: The White Princess
/"The Cousins' War" - Philippa Gregory's ongoing novelization of the Wars of the Roses - reaches an epic turning point in her latest book, about the precarious founding of the Tudor dynasty
Read MoreBook Review: Night Pilgrims
/The latest events in the life of immortal, imperturbable Count Saint-Germain find him in Crusades-era Egypt
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/Rousing naval action and atmospheric period drama share the stage in S. Thomas Russell's latest novel, by any other name
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Malice of Fortune
/Two of the most famous names of the Italian Renaissance - Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci - team up to untangle a series of horrific murders!
Read MoreBook Review: Sacred Games
/As if the tensions between Athens and Sparta at the 80th Olympiad weren't bad enough, now there's a dead Spartan - and the chief suspect is Athenian. Young everyman investigator Nico is on the case.
Read MoreBook Review: Roses Have Thorns
/A young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself
Read MoreBook Review: The Chalice
/An intelligent, sensitive Dominican novice finds herself at the heart of passionate conspiracies in the England of Henry VIII
Read MoreBook Review: The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones
/Jack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Shadows and Strongholds
/In a welcome reprint, a brave but untried young 12th century knight must learn how to fight - and take a bride
Read MoreBook Review: All the Light There Was
/In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance
Read MoreBook Review: After Rome
/When Roman troops left Britain forever, the locals were forced to fend for themselves - and in Morgan Llywelyn's latest historical novel, two cousins take two very different approaches to a world after Rome.
Read MoreBook Review: The Aviator's Wife
/A new novel tells the story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, famous author and wife of an even more famous jerk.
Read MoreBook Review: The Midwife's Tale
/A formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder
Read MoreEntitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess
/Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?
Read MoreBook Review: Kafka in Love
/Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.
Read MoreBook Review: Princess Elizabeth's Spy
/The redoubtable WWII code-breaking sleuth Maggie Hope returns, this time to safeguard the young girl who will one day come to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Eye (Raven, Book One)
/Now in the U.S.: an epic, gore-spattered series about a roving band of Viking warriors!
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfaithful Queen
/Young, vain, unfaithful Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, regularly draws writers intent on finding heroism in her brief life & times; Carolly Erickson is the latest aspirant.
Read MoreBook Review: I, Jane
/The meek and dutiful Jane Seymour, mother of Henry VIII's long-sought male heir, takes center stage in a new historical novel about her life and times.
Read MoreBook Review: Mistress of Mourning
/Tragedy haunted the earliest years of the new Tudor dynasty, and in this atmospheric new novel, a candle-maker and a courier are tasked with finding out why.
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