Historical Fiction

The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff

A spoiler-free review of The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff, a literary family novel about a marriage in crisis, a quiet diagnosis, and the meaning of home.

John of John by Douglas Stuart

An honest, spoiler-free review of John of John by Douglas Stuart, the Booker-winner's third novel set on the Isle of Harris. Three generations, one croft, and the things a community agrees not to say.

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett's long-awaited return, The Calamity Club, follows three women in 1933 Oxford, Mississippi who refuse to take what life has handed them: an eleven-year-old orphan with a sharp mouth, a chinless small-town spinster, and a desperate mother running on fumes. Funny, occasionally baggy, and full of women you do not forget after the last page.

The Thorn Queen by Sasha Peyton Smith

The Thorn Queen by Sasha Peyton Smith is the sequel to The Rose Bargain. Quieter court warfare, hotter romance, darker faerie kingdom.

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker is a slow-burn horror novel blending samurai history and Japanese myth. A Gothic horror novel where a grieving present-day fugitive and a 19th-century samurai's daughter discover each other through a door that should not exist, with Kylie Lee Baker's dark prose and Japanese mythology holding the whole haunted house together.

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