Historical Fiction

Imagine: Although your normal workday is perfectly honorable and suited to your talents, you must take advice from exploitative mentors and allow yourself to be confined in an unnatural enclosure.

“. . . a sympathetic and ironic rendering of a portion of Poe’s life . . .”

“. . . an overwhelming story of love in its darkest moments.”

What a tangled web we weave . . .

“The author keeps it personal . . . and she keeps it real.”

“. . . artfully written . . .”

Gregory Gibson’s first novel The Old Turk’s Load is similar to Snatch in that it offers thorough, grimly fun profiles of lowlifes going after one, fiercely coveted valuable—in thi

“. . . a welcome view of a likable young woman’s full-throttled claim on life in the early 20th century.”

“The book’s blurbs give insight into where the story is supposed to go, but it is a long time in getting there—and the way it gets there is less than compelling overall.”

“If Emma could have had all the sex and intrigue that Austen implied she desired, she might have been Carissa Portland in My Scandalous Viscount.”

“. . . [a] heart-wrenching tale . . .”

“Mr. Lodge writes beautifully . . . irresistible . . .”

“. . . absorbing . . . told with elegant restraint.”