Reay Tannahill In fifteenth-century Scotland, Bishop Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, the chancellor of Scotland, is determined to stop Archdeacon Columba Crozier's plot to destroy the king January 1, 1986 by...

Kaye Gibbons When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a...

Zoe Ferraris The one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband...

Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward (1823), Scott's first "European" novel, was an experiment in transferring the historical romance to foreign soil. Fifteenth-century France, the French Revolution, and contemporary Britain all...

James Crumley Author's debut novel, set during the Vietnam War.Crumley's disturbing Vietnam novel. In '62, Sergeant Krummel assumes command of a crew of rebellious, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities only...

Pauline Gedge  Kamose assumes command of the rebellion of the native princes against their overlords following his father's death, making a perilous sweep up the river Nile toward the delta...

Hilary Bailey Re-invents the history of the Trojan Wars and tells a new story of Cassandra. Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hand of Clytemnestra, but in this...

Jack Trevor Story Horace Spurgeon Fenton, struggling scriptwriter is Jack Trevor Story's alter ego - over-committed financially and emotionally.In this darkly comic novel Story documents his hero collisions with the...

Judith Lindbergh The mesmerizing chronicle of three tenth-century Viking women whose lives are inextricably bound by fate The Thrall’s Tale is a masterpiece of historical fiction that follows Katla, a slave,...

John Gardner Gus Keene, former colleague of Herbie Kruger in the British Secret Intelligence Service, is, like his old friend, retired. Yet he has barely had time to smell the...

Kenneth Wishnia “Whatever you are currently reading, I promise you it is not nearly as intelligent, witty, compelling, or entertaining as The Fifth Servant ….Wishnia makes history come alive.” — David Liss,...

Mark Oldfield  They didn't find the bodies until 2010, 57 years after they were hastily buried in a disused mineshaft. Fourteen had died from a single bullet to the back...