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Sacred Mounds – A Historical Fantasy

Sacred Mounds – A Historical Fantasy
  • Author(s): Jim Metzner
  • Location(s): Mississippi, Natchez, The Hudson Valley
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 17th century and present day

Cyclonic hordes of insects, a telepathic despot, body-swapping sex – just a few of the surprises Salvador Samuels encounters when he’s swept back to pre-colonial times, walking in the moccasins of a blind Indian – who in turn has...

The Prophets

The Prophets
  • Author(s): Robert Jones Jr
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of...

Bayou Born (Book 2 Fleur de Lis)

Bayou Born (Book 2 Fleur de Lis)
  • Author(s): Linda Joyce
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Romance

Branna Lind’s self-esteem rests at the bottom of the Mississippi River. She canceled her “wedding of the decade,” though she isn’t saying why. She wants life on her own terms, no ready-made job in the family business, no safety...

Bayou Bound

Bayou Bound
  • Author(s): Linda Joyce
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Biloxi Dutrey grounds her jet-setting photography career and returns to Mississippi when she learns her family home, Fleur De Lis, is headed for financial ruin. She plans to save it by scooping up the job of Keeper. But that...

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
  • Author(s): Tom Franklin
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

Fictional town Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas’s one-time boyhood...

Salvage the Bones

Salvage the Bones
  • Author(s): Jesmyn Ward
  • Location(s): Louisiana, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. He’s a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn’t often he worries about the family. Esch...

Southern Cross The Dog

Southern Cross The Dog
  • Author(s): Bill Cheng
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1920s

When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Robert’s adventures in the brooding swamplands – from hard labour to imprisonment to thwarted love – are full of courage, danger and heartbreak. This is story...

The Tilted World

The Tilted World
  • Author(s): Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1927

The stunning, epic new novel from Tom Franklin, the Gold Dagger Award winning author, writing with his wife, prize-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly

The Help

The Help
  • Author(s): Kathryn Stockett
  • Location(s): Jackson
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Early 1960s, Jackson, Mississippi, The Civil Rights movement is thundering along. An unjust world where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal belongings…

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
  • Author(s): William Faulkner
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured...

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