Historical Fiction

“the best, most exciting novel published this year. Action, suspense, heroism, sacrifice for a cause greater than the individual . . .”

“Gravel Heart is a look at an era and a culture that’s not often showcased in the literary world.”

In 1917 while in the throes of the First World War, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths left her home in Cape Town, Africa, with her mother to stay with her aunt in Cottingley, England.

Mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears for 11 days in 1926, but seldom speaks about it and omits entirely any mention of it in her autobiography.

“a remarkable achievement . . . a story of commitment, identity, and familial loyalty that will leave one in tears. Five out of five stars.”

The Whitechapel district of London’s East End in the latter decades of the 19th century was a popular place for immigrants and the poor working class.

“a beautiful story of pioneer hardiness and the determination to survive.”

The debut novel Lilli de Jong is almost a feminist version of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, targeting the treatment of women in the 1880s rather than slaughterhouses in the early 2

“The Girl Who Knew Too Much is a fun, spunky, read . . .”

Anne Hillerman’s Song of the Lion follows a path well trodden in cultural police procedurals.

The book jacket featuring the young girl in flounced ball gown and elbow length silk gloves, not to mention the bright pink band indicative of a beauty pageant that slashes diagonally across the co

First and foremost this is a book about food, which makes it a natural for chef turned writer Donia Bijan.