The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
★★★★☆ Is The Age of Light worth a million bucks? If you follow the book business, it’s a question you’ll be asking yourself the minute you pick up author Whitney Scharer’s debut novel, which...
Category: Historical Fiction
A Tyranny of Petticoats Edited by Jessica Spotswood
★★★★☆ A Tyranny of Petticoats contains 15 action-packed historical short stories featuring ambitious and awesome women. With an eye-catching cover and subtitle (15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, & Other Badass Girls), the reader...
Unbound by John Shors
★★★★☆ John Shors’ thoughtful novels are all set in the exotic Far East, underpinned by universal themes of a search for love and the bonds that bring people together. Beneath the Marble Sky featured...
If I Could Tell You by Elizabeth Wilhide
★★★☆☆ If I Could Tell You by Elizabeth Wilhide seemed to be the perfect book: a romantic story that’s set in England during World War I, that stars a brave, young woman, and is written...
Death and Mr. Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
★★★★☆ Charles Dickens is dead; long live Charles Dickens. Stephen Jarvis has channeled the Great Man in his superb retelling of how The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club came to be and the...
And the Sun Stood Still by Dava Sobel
★★★☆☆ Dava Sobel is a remarkable writer of scientific biography; she is a serviceable writer of drama. And the Sun Stood Still is a two-act play that captures the meeting between Nicolaus Copernicus and...
The Yid by Paul Goldberg
★★★★☆ Chto, nachalos’? is the sinister question that hangs in the air in 1953 Russia, before Stalin’s final pogrom meant to answer the Jewish Question. Has it begun? Pochti chto is always the response....
And After Many Days by Jowher Ile
★★★★☆ Jowher Ile’s And After Many Days opens upon an unremarkable day like so many others filled with the humdrum minutiae of quotidian life. The incessant rain had finally stopped, and the older brother,...
Silence by Shusaku Endo
★★★★☆ Originally written in 1966, Shusaku Endo’s Silence is a timeless classic of faith and the challenges of remaining true to oneself amidst hardship. Set in Japan in the mid-17th century, Silence tells the...
