Penguin
The Perfect Nazi
Throughout his childhood, television producer Martin Davidson thought his grandfather was simply a retired German dentist, a dominant and sometimes…
Reprobates
There is a large body of writing about the English Civil War, the events leading up to it and the…
Falling In Love With English Boys
Seventeen-year-old Cat Vernon is stuck in London all summer with her mother, who is doing research on an obscure writer…
The Queen’s Lady
When Lady Jane Rievaulx is widowed at the age of 18, she becomes a Lady of the Privy Chamber at…
Conquest
Prince John Comnenus seeks out the Old Man of the Mountains in the western Peloponnese, determined to acquire the wisdom…
Pop Goes the Weasel
Albert Jack only reluctantly took to studying the history of nursery rhymes, but then found it to be his most…
Mr. Chartwell
Editors' choice
Esther Hammerhans, a young librarian with the House of Commons, is disturbed when she finds a prospective new lodger at…
Ruso and the River of Darkness
The fourth novel in a series of historical mysteries set in the second century A.D., Caveat Emptor takes place in…
The Anatomy of Ghosts
1786. John Holdsworth, a small-time bookseller, was faced with near bankruptcy following several unfortunate incidents: the drowning in the Thames…
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Although D-Day has already been written about many times, notably by Max Hastings, Antony Beevor has used new and overlooked…
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