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The Colours of Corruption
The Colours of Corruption’s cover is suggestive of the atmosphere the author means to evoke, in a palette of murky…
Eden’s Garden
Greenwood’s pleasing debut employs a familiar device — a mystery that bridges different generations — to tell two original love…
Flights of Angels
In what is said to be the final instalment of the exciting Nicholas Talbot adventures (though, never say never), octogenarian…
Sea of Troubles
We have, in the first pages, a host of people of varying social position with confusing names, firmly in the…
The War Before Mine
On the face of it, Caroline Ross’s debut tells an oft told story. Soldier on the eve of action has…
Pattern of Shadows
Mary is a nursing sister at a Lancashire prison for the housing and treatment of German POWs; although her work…
Flint
Editors' choice
Young Will and his brother Ned are called away from their home in East Anglia to King Edward’s Welsh wars…
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