Book Review: Colossus
/An Indian driver and his enormous war-elephant experience the treacheries and triumphs of Alexander the Great's Babylon campaign
Read MoreBook Review: The Dream Lover
/The passionate, unconventional life of novelist George Sand forms the backdrop for Elizabeth Berg's new novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Architect's Apprentice
/A young boy and his gorgeous white elephant become apprenticed to the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire in this stunning new novel by the author of "The Bastard of Istanbul"
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifth Heart
/In Dan Simmons' latest fantastic novel, Henry James finds himself teamed up with fiction's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in order to solve a very real - and very heartbreaking - mystery.
Read MoreBook Review: Lady of the Eternal City
/Sabina, the wife of the enigmatic Roman emperor Hadrian, is beset by enemies in Rome - and safeguards a secret they'd all kill to know ...
Read MoreBook Review: Hereward - The End of Days
/Driven into hiding by the victorious forces of William the Conqueror, the heroic Hereward the Wake and his band of freedom fighters must struggle to survive
Read MoreBook Review: The Accidental Empress
/A strong-willed Bavarian princess captures the eye of the young Austro-Hungarian emperor in Allison Pataki's opulent new historical novel. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Empty Throne
/Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales continue with a lean, gripping tale of blood and armor
Read MoreThose Rascally Parthians! An Interview with author Andrew Levkoff
/Open Letters Monthly interviews the author of Blood of Eagles, book three of the Bow of Heaven series.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Rhett Butler's People
/Donald McCaig's energetic retelling of Margaret Mitchell's beloved "Gone with the Wind" gets a new paperback reprint
Read MoreBook Review: Sisters of Treason
/Lady Jane Grey was famously Queen of England for less than a fortnight before being executed by Queen Mary I; Elizabeth Fremantle's new book takes us into the world of Lady Jane's two sisters, adrift in a royal court that can't afford to trust them.
Read MoreBook Review: The Medici Boy
/Through the eyes of an assistant, a new novel by an American master shows us the life and torturous loves of the great Renaissance artist Donatello
Read MoreBook Review: The Red Lily Crown
/A bookseller's daughter, a mad alchemist Medici prince, and a heroic Cornishman move the plot of Elizabeth Loupas's hugely enjoyable new historical novel
Read MoreBook Review: A King's Ransom
/The larger-than-life story of captivity and struggles of King Richard the Lionheart
Read MoreBook Review: A Burnable Book
/14th century court poet John Gower is brought in by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer to solve the mystery of a book whose very existence threatens the realm
Read MoreBook Review: The Queen's Dwarf
/A quick-witted and bilingual dwarf is planted in the household of England's foreign queen in order to spy on her - but he comes to esteem her, outcast to outcast
Read MoreBook Review: Girl on the Golden Coin
/An exceptional beauty entices King Charles II and ascends to the heights of the Merry Monarch's court
Read MoreBook Review: My Name is Resolute
/The life of one remarkable woman - told against the backdrop of American colonies boiling toward revolution - forms the narrative of Nancy Turner's sumptuously old-fashioned new historical novel
Read MoreBook Review: Under the Wide and Starry Sky
/From the best-selling author of "Loving Frank" comes the story of Fanny Osbourne, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson
Read MoreBook Review: The Spanish Queen
/King Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, takes center stage in a new novel by Tudor historian Carolly Erickson
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