Pascali's Island
by Barry Unsworth | 
Losing Nelson
by Barry Unsworth | 
The Ruby in Her Navel
by Barry Unsworth | 
The Rage of the Vulture
by Barry Unsworth | 
Iokaste
by Victoria Grossack | 
The Thread
by Victoria Hislop | 
The Praise Singer
by Mary Renault | 
Goat Song
by Frank Yerby | 
Daughter of Troy
by Sarah B. Franklin | 
The Walled Orchard
by Tom Holt | 
Homer's Daughter
by Robert Graves | 
The Fall of Troy
by Peter Ackroyd | 
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
by Amanda Elyot | 
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline | 
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon | 
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See | 
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom | 
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks | 
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult |
Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolved family tragedy awakens again, along with his need to avenge his parents' deaths. With utterly convincing characterizations, Barry Unsworth brings us the underbelly of the forge of Western civilization.