Historical Fiction
- Classic Western Adventures
- Epic Tales of War and Honor
- Historical True Crime Chronicles
- Journeys Through Time and Place
- Romantic Journeys Through History
- Voices of the Past
- Gothic Tales of History
- Fictional Lives Through History
Rainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley shifts the focus from Anne and Gilbert Blythe to their lively six children, who find themselves intertwined with the new mini…
Aunt Crete's Emancipation
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…
The Sign of The Four
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. …
North and South
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holme…
Huntingtower
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…
Dawn of the Morning
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…
The Enchanted April
Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holi…
The Valley of Fear
Receiving a mysterious cypher message from a Fred Porlock, apparent agent of the infamous Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson set about de…
El Dorado
In El Dorado, Baroness Emma Orczy continues the thrilling escapades of the enigmatic hero known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Set against the ba…
Sir Nigel
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…
Barnaby Rudge
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…
He Fell in Love with His Wife
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…
A Voice in the Wilderness
Margaret leaves her family home and security to become a school teacher in the wilds of early Arizona. Accidentally getting off her safe and…
Mary Barton
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…
The Borough Treasurer
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …
Dangerous Days
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…
Ravensdene Court
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…