Teresa’s War by Margaret J. Carr is the story of Josef, his wife Hilde and their two daughters, Teresa aged seven and her younger sister Liesl, who are living in Austria in 1942. Teresa is now a very old woman and is sitting on a...

Whore of Babylon by Azaria Frost is a beguiling tale of love and loss during the time of oppressive conquerors and rulers in ancient Sumeria. Growing up in Nippur, Eliana and her sister, Kisha, have their lives shattered when Samsu, an invading prince from Babylonia,...

Water Lessons is a contemporary fiction novel written by Chadwick Wall. Jim grew up in a small town not far from New Orleans, and defied his father in order to find and make sure his old friend Freddy was prepared for the storm. Freddy's family...

The Last Vestal Virgin by Lorraine Carey is a contemporary teenage drama with a paranormal and richly historical twist. Drawing on the ancient ways of the Vestal Virgins of Rome, the novels centres on Christina Ciccone and the strange, all-consuming dreams that begin to haunt...

Lucinda Elliot time travels to the French Revolution where one of the last of the aristocratic rakes, Émile Dubois, charms his pious and poor relative, Sophie de Courcy into marrying him. Within the tradition of the Gothic novel, once married and settled in North Wales,...

Santa Rita Stories: Coming of Age in a Cuban Fishing Town is a historical short story collection written by Andrew J. Rodriguez. The stories are set in Santa Rita, a small town in Cuba, in the mid 1950s, and they revolve around the friendship of...

Poet Emperor, The Last of the Moghuls: Bahadur Shah Zafar, by Farzana Moon, is a compelling story of the final days of the last Moghul ruler of India. Founded by a Central Asian ruler who was descended from the Genghis Khan on his mother's side,...

Mosquito County is romantic historical fiction written by Lucinda Waldron. Emma Kingston grew up in the late 1800s as a member of Boston’s elite society, but she’s not all that taken with the way women are supposed to behave. She prefers riding her horse in...

Wheels of Change by Darlene Beck Jacobson is the heartwarming story of twelve-year-old Emily who is the daughter of a carriage maker in Washington, DC, in the early 1900s. Emily's mother takes care of the family. Emily likes to help her father in his carriage...

Shenandoah: Daughter of the Stars by Nancy Johnson took me back to the days of the Civil War when fourteen-year-old Hannah Yeager, her thirteen-year-old brother Willy and their friend Charlie Richison find themselves growing up all too quickly because of the war raging around them....