Category: Historical Fiction

Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | Review

It’s August, it’s hot, it’s revival time in Maxwell, Georgia. Tracy Deen, the rebel child who always disappoints his self-sacrificing mothe

Jane Eiseman | Home Again, Home Again | A modern lesbian couple discover a grave in which a woman and her lover are buried. It is the spirit of the dead woman who wonders if the couple are f

Valerie Miner | All Good Women | A look at the lives of four women during World War II on the American home front.

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From Publishers WeeklyOn the eve of World War II, fo

Emma Donoghue | Slammerkin | Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700’s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hunge

Emma Donoghue | Life Mask | A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin. It’s an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time

Emma Donoghue | Life Mask |