20th Century
Assegai
Popular adventure novelist Smith sets his latest tale of the sprawling, ambitious Courtney family in British East Africa as the…
By George
Ventriloquists’ dummies can seem rather macabre and a little disturbing, and this novel has an element of the bizarre about…
Shaman Winter
In the late 1990s Albuquerque resident and private investigator Sonny Baca is recovering from his latest run-in with his nemesis,…
Land of Marvels
Somerville, a British archaeologist, is spending his third season working on Tell Erdek in Mesopotamia just months before the start…
The Tomb of Zeus
The Tomb of Zeus introduces Laetitia Talbot, an aspiring archaeologist with a passion for adventure. The story opens in Crete…
Palace Circle
Editors' choice
It’s been a long time since I was as caught up in a novel as I was in Palace Circle.…
London Belongs to Me
It is Christmas 1938 with the prospect of war ever present, but daily life must go on. The setting is…
Among the Mad
I first encountered Maisie Dobbs in her first outing in the book of that title, the premise of which –…
Germania
Germany, 1945: the final days of the Third Reich. As the Allies close in, the upper echelons of the Nazi…
Human Love
In a crude dwelling on the border of Angola and Zaire, two imprisoned men meet during a shocking night of…
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