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Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
I would not call myself a Heyer fan as such, but a book on Regency life made an enjoyable prospect…
The Trojan War : A New History
In this most interesting book, Barry Strauss, an expert in ancient military history, places Homer’s The Iliad in its…
Siege of Heaven
Harper writes about that charade of religious fervour, the First Crusade of 1096-98, in all its ghastly violence and hypocrisy.…
Sunshine and Shadows
When her impoverished family is forced from their home, young Daisy Kildare is sent from Ireland to Liverpool to…
Cotillion
This story, by the woman credited with establishing the Regency romance subgenre, was originally published in 1953. Young Kitty Charing…
An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War
This is a well-documented account of the Battle of Waterloo from the British army’s point of view. The social events…
Forgotten Dreams
Even though Lottie is only six years old, she has no knowledge of her early life, her memory apparently erased…
Sing For Your Supper
Tudor Morgan refuses to go down the mine; his ambition is to make a name as a singer. When he…
Saint Thomas’s Eve
Plaidy’s sixth novel in her Tudor series is a compelling reconstruction of the life of Sir Thomas More. The novel…
Murder Most Royal
I first read Murder Most Royal as a teenager. On re-reading this spending looking reprint I found the writing still…
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