Category Fiction

The Name of the RoseBy Umberto EcoFirst Published in 1980, first English translation in 1983In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This was beginning with God and the duty of every faithful monk would be to repeat every day with chanting humility the on never-changing event whose incontrovertible truth can be asserted.

The Forest LairdBy Jack WhytePenguin BooksISBN: 9780670068463Publisher’s Synopsis: In the pre-dawn hours of August 24, 1305 a.d., in London’s Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace, who is to be executed at dawn, is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last Confession. So begins The Forest Laird, the first book in Jack Whyte’s masterful new trilogy.