Thriller
The Stalin Epigram
The author of The Stalin Epigram is an American who has lived abroad for many years and written spy thrillers…
Winston’s War: A Novel of Deception
Following upon the success of Never Surrender, this is another of Michael Dobbs’s previously published novels centering on pivotal moments…
The Book of Night Women
Editors' choice
The Book of Night Women is a beautifully written, sweeping tale of Jamaican slavery set in the early 19th century.…
The Hoard of Mhorrer
Although not a straight historical novel, The Hoard of Mhorrer effectively blends fantasy with real historical events. This is a…
The Seance
John Harwood, the Australian author of The Ghost Writer, won the 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.…
The Interrogator
We all know that the British managed to break the German ‘Enigma’ code during World War II, but what of…
The Charlemagne Pursuit
This is the seventh novel from this American author and the fourth in the Cotton Malone series. The book does…
Sawney Beane: The Abduction of Elspeth Cumming
In 1593, off the coast of Galloway, Scotland, a family of 48 people lived in a cave and practiced both…
Germania
Germany, 1945: the final days of the Third Reich. As the Allies close in, the upper echelons of the Nazi…
The Given Day
Set against the waning years of World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the increasingly turbulent social changes…
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