When The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue opens, wealthy dilettante Henry Montague and his best friend Percy are setting off…
The Candle-Factory Girl was a perfectly pleasant working-class family drama, but including some of the worst historical world-building I've ever…
White Chrysanthemum tells the story of two sisters in Japanese-occupied Korea. When the story opens, their family is living on…
After the suspicious drowning death of her husband and the unsolved murder of her best friend, Sofia, Maggie O'Shea doesn't seem…
Before receiving David Wishart's new novel Solid Citizens, I'd already read Ovid, Germanicus, and Sejanus, also Roman mysteries by the…