Adventure
The Watchman of Eternity
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It’s 1752, and Jacobite agent Thomas Aylesford is trying to bring to Paris the Hunter, a mysterious, clock-shaped weapon that could turn the ...Read Review
The Java Gold: Book 1: The Odyssey
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The Java Gold: Book 1: The Odyssey was a real treat. As a keen reader of history books with a lesser known setting or ...Read Review
The Holy Lance: Book 1 of the English Templar Series
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The author sets his ‘work of military historical adventure’ in the Holy Land in 1191 during the Third Crusade. A ferocious fighter and knight-brother ...Read Review
World War II Tales, 1: The Apple Spy
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This is another in Terry Deary’s series of World War II stories based on true events. The Apple Spy features the discovery ...Read Review
The Fowler’s Snare
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The Fowler’s Snare is an adventure novel set in Ancient Egypt following the fortunes of a handful of characters as they undertake ...Read Review
The King’s Assassin
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In this 800th anniversary year of the Magna Carta, it seems only right that the latest instalment in Angus Donald’s Outlaw Chronicles ...Read Review
World War II Tales, 2: The Bike Escape
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London, 1939. Britain is at war and London children are being evacuated to the country. Young Harry is always in trouble at school, and ...Read Review
Dragon’s Bounty
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Dragon’s Bounty is sold openly as a ‘historical gay fantasy adventure’ but this is misleading. Very misleading. My first warning is not ...Read Review
The Towers of Samarcand
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Volume Two of The Mistra Chronicles, and the 14th century draws to its close at one of the most dangerous and crucial times ...Read Review
World War II Tales, 3: The Barrel Burglary
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The Barrel Burglary is one of a series of World War II tales of ‘exciting, funny stories based on true historical events’. In ...Read Review
