Bloomsbury
David
In 1501 Gabriele, a country boy, arrives in Florence and is immediately robbed. He believes that his older ‘milk’ brother,…
Cabinet of Curiosities
Lukas DeClerq is travelling to Prague to become an apprentice to his Uncle Anselmus, court physician to the Emperor Rudolph…
The Poisoned House
In the year of 1855 the story begins with the attempted escape of Abigail Tamper, scullery maid, from the house…
Papa Spy
The Spanish Civil War is perhaps best known to readers through the works of writers like George Orwell and Ernest…
The Secret History of Costaguana
In 1904, Joseph Conrad published Nostromo, set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana, claiming that his information came…
The Pindar Diamond
Editors' choice
In 1604 a travelling band of entertainers arrive at an almost deserted village in southern Italy. A dissolute man offers…
Last Night in Twisted River
The story opens in 1954 at a logging camp along the Twisted River. Danny is only twelve years old when,…
The Betrayal
As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two…
1492: The Year the World Began
Felipe Ferńandez-Armesto’s contention in 1492: The Year the World Began is that in the titular year events occurred that shaped…
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Editors' choice
“In 1914, at the age of eight years, I was caught spying on my father Prince Su as he made…
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