Mr. American
by George MacDonald Fraser | 
Captain in Calico
by George MacDonald Fraser | 
The Reavers
by George MacDonald Fraser | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan | 
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate | 
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini | 
America's First Daughter
by Stephanie Dray | 
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett | 
The Book Of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill | 
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson | 
The Sunne In Splendour
by Sharon Kay Penman |
This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger | 
I Am Livia
by Phyllis T. Smith | 
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by Robert Dugoni | 
The Rent Collector
by Camron Wright | 
The Forty Rules of Love
by Elif Shafak | 
Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain |
When Captain Buckley "Mad Buck" Flashman, father of the notorious Harry, sees a black American boxer catch a fly in mid-flight, he realizes this could be the prize rings best fighter ever, not to mention a great investment. In this magnificent re-creation of Regency England, George MacDonald Fraser is at his storytelling best for the powerful, rollicking, and moving tale of Tom Molineaux, a freed slave from New Orleans who challenged Britain's undefeated Tom Cribb. How the "Black Ajax" became as famous a figure in England as Napoleon -- and just as much a threat to its establishment -- passed into boxing legend and created a precedent of modern black prize-fighters.Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Black Ajax shows Fraser is, in the words of Kingsley Amis, "a first-rate historical novelist" in whichever era he sets his exuberantly entertainingly stories.