AF: Historical Fiction and War

Argentina,1978. President Jorge Rafael Videla's military dictatorship reigns with an iron fist, regularly kidnapping, torturing and murdering political activists and opponents and their families at secret concentration camps. The country is locked in a spiral of fear and chaos - and are soon to...

AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has surrounded himself with sycophants and together they rampage by night through the city, visiting death and destruction as they go. Meanwhile, Nero's extravagance has reached new heights. The Emperor's spending is becoming profligate...

All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her mother to be on one of her good days and, secretly, for a velvet riding hat. So when she finds an assortment of wet towels and dirty plates in her stocking, she s just...