"In this powerful and original epic, a girl ventures from her remote Polynesian island to try to save her people from doom. After Norse invaders slaughter almost everyone on a small Scottish island, a mead wife, a monk and an elderly Norseman find themselves the only survivors. This mystery is filled with fascinating glimpses of mid-18th-century London, where the recently widowed Hannah Cole runs a confectionery shop."
"Chidgey's devastating new novel, set in an alternative version of the 20th century, watches young lives get twisted into unnatural shapes. Cross's World War I love story, about a mysterious governess and an upper-class university student, balances historical sweep with erotic tension. Set in the early years of the Virginia Colony, Perry's searing novel explores the complexities and contradictions of a society built on bondage."
"Though this novel's ingredients sound familiar a seedy English mansion, a ne'er-do-well scion, his domineering mother conventions are soon upended. In this novel of the Trojan War, Browner focuses not on the warriors but on the unknown lives that were lost, and on the damage that years of fighting left behind. Daikon's riveting, impeccably researched novel asks, what if a third atomic bomb fell into the hands of the Japanese when an American plane crashed?"
A range of historical novels presents varied premises and settings across time and place. A young woman departs a remote Polynesian island to try to avert doom for her people. Norse invaders decimate a Scottish island, leaving three unlikely survivors. A mid-18th-century London mystery centers on the widowed confectioner Hannah Cole. An alternative 20th-century novel depicts young lives warped into unnatural forms. A World War I tale pairs a mysterious governess with an upper-class student amid erotic tension. Early Virginia Colony fiction examines a society structured by bondage. Additional works reimagine the Trojan War, atomic-age counterfactuals, and formative artistic lives.
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