Category: Historical Fiction

Jakov Lind | Landscape in Concrete | Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regimen

Radclyffe Hall | Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself | A lesbian finds her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country. Overtones of science fiction.

Collects five short works by the auth

Radclyffe Hall | Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself | A lesbian finds her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country. Overtones of science fiction.

Collects five short works by the auth

Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse in Africa | A long, rambling work set in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Napoleonic era, Anthony Adverse relates the many adventures of the eponymous

Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | ‘We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it . . . We could pa

Martha Rofheart | Burning Sappho | ‘ ‘Burning Sappho’ is a moving and engrossing novel about Sappho, the poet of Lesbos.’

Doris Grumbach | The Ladies | ‘A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one.’

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Martha Rofheart | Burning Sappho | ‘ ‘Burning Sappho’ is a moving and engrossing novel about Sappho, the poet of Lesbos.’

Doris Grumbach | The Ladies | ‘A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one.’ Newsday In the late 18th century, E

Jeanette Winterson | The Daylight Gate | “The North is the dark place. It is not safe to be buried on the north side of the church and the North Door is the way of the dead. The North of Engl