Steven Saylor The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta....

Paul Doherty "The Magician's Death" is set in a snow-besieged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid. January 1, 2004 by Headline...

Pauline Gedge  Seqenenra Tao, Prince of Weset, leads a revolt against the alien Hyksos pharaohs. His provincial aristocratic family is accustomed to a life of straitened gentility. But when the...

Katherine Arden **Final part of the trilogy of The Bear and the Nightingale: magic, monsters, and enormous palaces in medieval Russia.** Fire has ravaged Moscow, and a furious mob seeks...

Alex Rutherford THE EPIC STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRES IN HISTORYThe mighty Empire of the Moghuls burst out of Central Asia into India in the sixteenth century....

Chayym Zeldis A riveting, monumental novel about the life of the brother of Jesus Christ—hypnotic in its power and imagery, awesome in its conception and dramatic invention. Brothers is the...

Ross Leckie  "A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains." Such are the observations made and ill-gotten lessons learned in this fictional autobiographical narrative of breathtaking range and...

Clare Colvin Colvin's novel follows the renaissance dream of Arcadia to its horrific distruction, in this novel about Monteverdi and the Dukes Of Gonzaga. September 10, 1999 by Arcadia Books...

Herbjorg Wassmo On the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets. Set in...

Rose Tremain  Merivel is an unforgettable hero―soulful, funny, outrageous and achingly sad. His unmistakable, self-mocking voice speaks directly to us down the centuries. From the Orange Prize–winning author Rose Tremain...

Hannah Tinti Hero. Villain. Father...After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley and his daughter Loo finally settle in Olympus, Massachusetts. Hawley takes up fishing, while Loo struggles with...

Javier Sierra Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper .Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to...