There has always been one time period and place I would never want to visit, […]
Eleanore of Avignon, by Elizabeth DeLozier
Readers familiar with European history will recognize the date that appears at the beginning of […]
The Mirror of Simple Souls, by Aline Kiner
Trigger warning for references to rape. Life for medieval women in Western Europe was supposed […]
Cities of Women, by Kathleen B. Jones
Christine de Pizan is one of the few medieval women we know from their own […]
He Who Drowned the World, by Shelley Parker-Chan
Trigger warning for rape. Shelley Parker-Chan concludes her fantastical account of the meteoric rise of […]
The Maiden of All Our Desires, by Peter Manseau
The Maiden of All Our Desires, by Peter Manseau, takes place in a remote convent […]
She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan
In the waning days of the Yuan Empire, a girl whose original name we never […]
The Plague Charmer, by Karen Maitland
Trigger warning for brief description of child abuse. When The Plague Charmer, by Karen Maitland, […]
To Calais, in Ordinary Time, by James Meek
In a horrible sort of coincidence, I ended up reading the perfect book for waiting […]
The Winter of the Witch, by Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden’s amazing Winternight trilogy comes to a satisfying close in The Winter of the Witch. This […]