Historical Fiction

“Theresienstadt was a ghetto where prisoners provided slave labor for the German war effort. They survived on starvation rations and lived in squalor.

“Cold, hungry, sick with typhus, and limping from the dog bite on her leg, Czeslawa has forgotten most things. Only in her dreams does Czeslawa remember:

“a phenomenal book, the conclusion to a magnificent trilogy as well-written and psychologically powerful as the Regeneration Trilogy, which raised Barker’s stature more than three decades a

“Deftly portraying both Ms.

Ostensibly set in the mid-19th century American West, In the Distance actually exists somewhere in the realm between the unlikely and the impossible.

“Archer’s bold thriller structure bares all motives and manipulations, so there are few surprises and no secrets here, but the suspense of each interaction resembles the final rounds of a c

The Empusium reprises many aspects of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain: a sanatorium (this one in Lower Silesia) for the treatment of tuberculosis; a time period set in 1

“The Wildes is both a powerful family portrait and a verbal delight.”

“In A Kid from Marlboro Road Edward Burns perfectly captures a bygone era and sense of place.”

“The Instrumentalist is a marvel, a story rich in texture and detail.”

“The Thirteenth Husband is an outstanding depiction of Aimee Crocker's complicated real life turned into fiction.”

“feels completely contemporary in terms of language, characters, descriptions. It just happens to take place in the 11th century.”