The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King by Jerome Charyn
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This historical novel portrays Roosevelt as a crime fighter and features his mountain lion Josephine.
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The Gown by Jennifer Robson
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A historical novel about Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown, and the women who made it.
Read MoreThe Lost Queen by Signe Pike
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The first novel of a debut trilogy reveals the untold story a forgotten queen of 6th century Scotland.
Read MoreThe Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
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Based on The Iliad, a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of captured women in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
Read MoreThe Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker
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Action, adventure, political intrigue and romance set in medieval Norway.
Read MoreThe Spy of Venice by Benet Brandreth
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A debut novel starring Shakespeare as swashbuckling hero.
Read MoreThe Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton
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A debut novel exploring the corruption at the heart of the art world in eighteenth century London.
Read MoreSoviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
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The story of three generations of women, as well as the effects of Soviet rule on their lives.
Read MoreMemento Mori by Ruth Downie
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Downie unfolds the investigation at her customary smooth, deliberate pace, filling her pages with well-realized characters
Read MoreThe Throne of Caesar by Steven Saylor
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Mystery fiction based on the most famous murder in history.
Read MoreAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace is adapted into a lavish TV series.
Read MorePeculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett comes to the world of fiction after writing nonfiction, including The Pike, a very good book about Italian writer and gold-plated weirdo Gabriele D'Annunzio. Her opulent new book Peculiar Ground, her debut work of fiction, is probably predictably steeped in history, split between two very different eras.
Read MoreWorlds Undone
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A pseudonym, though it obscures, is not always successful as a bid for obscurity. Witness Elena Ferrante: while her work stands on its own, the added mystery of authorial absence has no doubt contributed to the years-long international firestorm of publicity and speculation.
Nevertheless, a pen name may still give personal shelter to the author who chooses it.
Read MoreThe Poison Tree
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The hardest thing about watching Norman Mailer reprise his public role as a loudmouthed buffoon is seeing the damage his performance has done to his newest novel, The Castle in the Forest. Mailer has been taking the stage in this part for, it is hard to believe, sixty years, since the publication of The Naked and the Dead in 1948. For sixty years he’s been bullying his way to the front of the proscenium and bellowing forth one self-indulgent diatribe after another. For sixty years he’s been picking fights and manufacturing front-page vendettas, refusing to allow a single cultural phenomenon to pass without weighing in, in terms sufficiently coarse and supercilious to somehow make every spectacle in part about him—and rather conveniently timing these irruptions to coincide with the publication of a new book.
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