2013
Forsaken Dreams
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Colonel Blake Wallace is fleeing from the horrors he has experienced in the American Civil War. His family murdered and the cause he ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Sword
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This is certainly a book with a difference. It is cited as fiction, but I would suggest that that is far from the ...Read Review
Appetite
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Think of synaesthesia: a young boy realises that, for him, tastes or scents trigger other senses and associations. Then set the scene in ...Read Review
Benjamin Franklin’s Bastard
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Sally Cabot’s Benjamin Franklin’s Bastard is an outstanding work of historical fiction, filled with characters so lifelike and true that the ...Read Review
Tainted Angel
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Tainted Angel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. England has employed various spies who apparently don’t trust each other any further than ...Read Review
The Good Lord Bird
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Was John Brown a terrorist, martyr, hero, lunatic, saint or deluded fool? After reading The Good Lord Bird I would still hesitate to ...Read Review
The Blood of Heaven
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The son of a fire-eating Baptist preaching his way across the post-Revolutionary backwoods, Angel Woolsack has learned his father’s trade well. In ...Read Review
Midnight in St Petersburg
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Set during the convulsions and upheavals of revolutionary Russia, this novel is centred around Inna Feldman, who decides to flee Kiev after witnessing ...Read Review
Blood from a Stone
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In her latest 1920s mystery (after Trouble Brewing, 2012), Gordon-Smith keeps intrepid writer/investigator Jack Haldean busy with a grisly killing on a train, ...Read Review
The Mannequin House
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This murder mystery is set in 1914, but the historical setting is not a strong element in its pages. It reads like Golden Age ...Read Review
