Few concepts have left such hideous scars on world history as slavery, with the wounds caused by centuries of kidnapping and selling human beings still being healed around the world. In David Calloway’s debut novel, If Someday Comes: A Slave's Story of Freedom, I was...

The Lost Diary of Cécile Dubonnet: Forgetting the Yesterdays of World War II by A P Harper is a historical fiction novel with a solid plot and even stronger characters. The story opens in Paris, 1999, when Hénri Durant decided to remodel his apartment. He...

The Boy Behind The Door: How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis by David Tabatsky is inspired by a true story. Salomon Kool was celebrating his Bar Mitzvah with family and friends when they learned that Amsterdam had been invaded. The life they knew was slowly...

In Danish Connection, Keith Thye has taken a very intriguing topic that can be a minefield and treated it with the utmost care and respect. When writing about the history of places, people, or even families, it can be quite a journey, and any author...

Emma (Heritage Series) by Susan Diane Black Blackmon tells the story of a family marred by grief. When Emma’s mother, Jane, dies during her nineteenth childbirth, Emma’s father, Ben, is left numb. He blames Jane’s mother and the doctor for not being able to save...

Angels and Bandits by Brodie Curtis is a historical fiction novel set during the early days of the Second World War. After being given a taste of flying on a plane, working-class Eddy Beane is hooked on returning to the skies again. Eventually, he finds...

Jules Larimore's The Muse of Freedom is a well-crafted historical novel, a coming-of-age story of Jehan BonDurant, a young French nobleman. Larimore has drawn inspiration from the 17th-century historical figure of his ancestor Jean Pierre Bondurant dit Cougoussac, a French Huguenot. The Muse of Freedom...

In Myth Takes: Rhyme and Reason in the Age of Entitlement by Agee, the poems are flashbacks to the times of the mythical Greek gods and kings and explore their traits and fetishes. For instance, Zeus, King of Olympus, had a weakness in controlling his...

Dead Heat to Destiny: Three Lives and a Spy by J. B. Rivard is a work of fiction in the historical, interpersonal drama, and intrigue subgenres. Set during the world-changing events of the First World War, it follows four lives intertwined by bonds of love,...

Veiled Tide: The Sefwarian Nyss Series, Book 2 by Erica-Jane Battisson follows on from the events of Honest Dealing, providing a unique opportunity to delve into the former life Merryn. Battisson transports us to Cornwall in 1785, filled with smugglers’ plots, vicious warriors, and tenuous...