Category: Historical Fiction

Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Nig

Helen Shacklady | Vinland Sheep | Late in the 15th century the adventures of English and Welsh families create a riotious background for this story. Horse thieves, sailors and widows c

Katherine Sturtevant | A Mistress Moderately Fair | From Publishers Weekly

Within this colorful and historically accurate romp through 17th century London’s theater district, muddy streets and stimu

Bart Schneider | Beautiful Inez | Inez Roseman, a noted beauty, has a charismatic husband, two bright children, and a successful career as a lead violinist with the San Francisco Symph

Michelle Cliff | Free Enterprise | In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secret

V. Miner | All Good Women | From Publishers Weekly

On the eve of World War II, four young women, students at a San Francisco secretarial school, become housemates. They are l