Tom Harper
The Orpheus Descent
At first sight this is a conspiracy novel of a type familiar over the last ten years. An archaeologist/researcher-of-some-sort discovers…
The Lazarus Vault
Editors' choice
Out of the blue, Ellie Stanton is offered a job – posh flat and limitless credit included – at a…
Siege of Heaven
Harper writes about that charade of religious fervour, the First Crusade of 1096-98, in all its ghastly violence and hypocrisy.…
Knights of the Cross
In the author’s historical note at the back of the volume, he notes the “catalogue of greed, intrigue, treachery and…
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