It's a bold task to take on writing a 400-page plus book based on the life of an obscure English midwife who lived in the 1600s. But that is the challenge Annelisa Christensen gave herself with The Popish Midwife, after studying court transcripts about the...

Agrippa’s Wake by Ralph Jackman is an entertaining read about prominent people and events in the history of Rome. Writing in the first person is often very tricky, yet Mr. Jackman does an amazing job of drawing his readers in with his prose. He brings...

A story that begins with a man waking in the middle of the night, feeling cold and uneasy, to find an ugly woman lurking in his room and telling him she’d waited many years to face a certain Mr. Hardwycke is a good promise for...

Leanna Englert’s historical fictional work, Compromise with Sin: A Novel, is both informational and engaging from the first page to the last. Beginning with the last decade of the nineteenth century through the next twenty years, and set in Riverbend, Nebraska, the characters embody the...

Mission Song: Chenoa's Story, Book 2 from the Ladies of Mischief series is a lovely historical fiction by Karen Dean Benson. Impetuous twelve-year-old Chenoa Sandoval’s adopted father, Padre Tomas, dies and she reluctantly goes to live with Don Sebastian at his ranch in Monterey. Her...

Never At Peace by MJ Neary is a gripping historical novel about some of the key activists of the Easter Rising at the beginning of the 20th century. The Easter Rising was an armed uprising in Ireland during Easter Week of April 1916. The insurgents'...

A Regency Yuletide by Becky Lower is the story of Sophie Davenport, a beautiful young woman who returns home after spending the social season in London without a marriage proposal, much to her mother’s chagrin. In contrast, she is quite happy to remain single and...

Dying to Live is a historical fiction by Robert Perrin. The Great Depression changed Caitlin Clarke’s comfortable lifestyle from riches to rags. That would have been easier to endure if Donavan, her beloved archaeologist father, wasn’t missing on an expedition in India. Caitlin joins her...

Juliana (Volume 1, 1941-1944) by Vanda is an intriguing historical fiction romance set in 1940s New York City, where the gay community thrives in the midst of a repressive atmosphere and raging war in Europe. Alice ‘Al’ Huffman, new high school graduate, goes to New...

Sherlock Holmes, His Wife and the Hunt for Jack the Ripper is a suspenseful historical mystery by India Millar. She has written a different version to the popular Sherlock Holmes' mysteries by including a wife, Eleanor “Nellie,” and a daughter, Nona. Jack the Ripper has...