2010
Conspirata
In Imperium, we saw Cicero rise from humble origins to achieve the highest office of Rome. Now, in the second…
The Eloquence of Desire
Set in the 1950s, the book begins with George travelling home on the tube and wondering how he is going…
Written in Blood
It is 1877, and 16-year-old Jim Doolen has set out to find the father he hasn’t seen in ten years.…
On the Blue Comet
Oscar Ogilvie lives with his father in Cairo, Illinois, at the end of Lucifer Street. He is an 11-year-old boy…
A Lily of the Field
Editors' choice
This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no…
Once a Knight
The time is 1916. America has not yet entered WWI, and Everett Ross, a Texas Ranger not unlike a number…
Light on a Distant Hill: A Novel of the Indian West
Ellen O’Hara, at age sixteen, is being sent west from Kansas as a mail-order bride. Before she has the chance…
The Marlowe Conspiracy
Historical novelists would be lost without the dashing, mysterious figure of Christopher Marlowe, and they’d be equally lost if there…
The Crown in the Heather
Scotland, 1290: two families vie for the throne. As Robert the Bruce becomes a true contender, his love for Elizabeth…
Shadows of Empire
Through London and Lucknow, Oxford and Cawnpore, Alan McKee’s third novel threads a labyrinth of past and present. Henry Booth…
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