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Corsair: The Adventures of Hector Lynch
The unfortunate Hector Lynch certainly gets his fair share of adventures in this novel and is still only eighteen years…
My Lady Judge
Editors' choice
On the eve ofthe first of May, 1509, people from all over the Burren, on the western seaboard ofIreland, climb…
The Quest
In the fourth novel of Wilbur Smith’s Egyptian series, the story of Taita the eunuch continues but delves further into…
The Tower
Shortly after the Great War, American archaeologist Desmond Garrett disappeared whilst looking for the legendary Tower of Solitude in the…
Helen of Troy
Once again we have a re-telling of the Trojan War from Helen’s point of view. For those of you who…
The Sale of the Late King’s Goods : Charles l and His Art Collection
Charles I raised the sin of acquisitiveness to gargantuan heights. During his reign thousands of paintings, tapestries and statuary…
Empire of Dragons
The book begins in Edessa, an outpost of the Eastern Roman Empire in 260 AD. Metellus and his men faithfully…
Winter In Madrid
Having no previous knowledge of Sansom’s prior success, both critically and commercially, with crime novels set in Tudor times, it…
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