Allison & Busby
Soldier of Fortune
Edward Marston is famous as a writer of whodunits, which are published under at least three names. For the first…
A Flag of Truce
Toulon, 1793. In this fourth John Pearce adventure, our hero, now a naval lieutenant, continues to be a thorn in…
An Awkward Commission
This is the third novel in Donachie’s 1790s naval series and so continues the story of John Pearce and his…
The Painted Lady
This is Restoration comedy, the eighth whodunit in the popular Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the young architect, is making his…
The Galliard
Young Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after years of exile and is immediately caught up in the religious…
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
1554: At the court of Mary Tudor of England, a man and woman are joined in a battle of words…
The Sword of Revenge
Editors' choice
This is the second of a trilogy set in the Roman Republic during the period before Julius Caesar. The first…
The Pillars of Rome
This is the first book in a trilogy from an author more usually known as David Donachie, writer of historical…
Death in Hellfire
This is the latest novel in Deryn Lake’s excellent John Rawlings mystery series. After his adventures in Cornwall, told in…
The Keeper of Secrets
Editors' choice
This is certainly much more than a run-of-the-mill historical crime novel. A young and idealistic clergyman, the Reverend Tobias Campion,…
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