Mostly Historical

The Candle-Factory Girl

The Candle-Factory Girl was a perfectly pleasant working-class family drama, but including some of the worst historical world-building I've ever…

7 years ago

White Chrysanthemum

White Chrysanthemum tells the story of two sisters in Japanese-occupied Korea. When the story opens, their family is living on…

7 years ago

The Lost Concerto

After the suspicious drowning death of her husband and the unsolved murder of her best friend, Sofia, Maggie O'Shea doesn't seem…

7 years ago

Solid Citizens

Before receiving David Wishart's new novel Solid Citizens, I'd already read Ovid, Germanicus, and Sejanus, also Roman mysteries by the…

7 years ago

The Lost Daughter of Liverpool

It was not gritty, and it was not heartbreaking, but if you are waiting anxiously for the next Call The…

8 years ago