John Murray
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
Editors' choice
If the first four novels of Gyles Brandreth’s series of Victorian murder mysteries had never existed to whet our appetites…
Perdition
The last decade of the 13th century sees the Crusader city of Acre awaiting the final onslaught from an overwhelming…
Relic
Relic is unashamedly indebted to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, which it lists in its bibliography, along with The Holy…
Revenger
This is the second novel by Clements featuring the Elizabethan ‘intelligencer’, John Shakespeare. His more famous younger brother pops up…
Devil’s Charge
When I was at school our history books gave the impression that the English Civil War was a rather gentlemanly…
The Daughter of Siena
According to legend, Sienese noblewoman Pia Tolomei is a descendant of Egypt’s Ptolemy line, her beauty inviting comparisons to Queen…
Prince
Editors' choice
It is the year 1593, and England is a powder-keg of rumour and fear. Plague threatens London, famine is rife…
The School of Night
Discredited Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is tasked by a ruthless antiquities collector to recover a missing letter which was stolen…
Eagle
This exciting and interesting novel is the first installment of a planned trilogy following the life and fortunes of the…
Walking in Pimlico
This is Ann Featherstone`s first novel, and I, for one, will be looking forward eagerly to her next. She has…
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