Quercus
A Game of Sorrows
Following on from the excellent The Redemption of Alexander Seaton comes the next novel following the adventures of the teacher-hero…
IF THE DEAD RISE NOT
Interwar Berlin police officer Bernie Gunther has had his share of troubles in Philip Kerr’s March Violets, A German Requiem,…
Black Hills
The story begins in 1876 when General George Armstrong Custer is killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Paha…
A Game of Sorrows
Following on from the excellent The Redemption of Alexander Seaton comes the next novel following the adventures of the teacher-hero…
The Promise of Rain
This is a moving novel about family, love and war. It is split between the viewpoint of an 11-year-old girl,…
Jungle Soldier
Lieutenant-Colonel Freddy Spencer Chapman was an infantry officer who survived for more than three years in the jungles of occupied…
Hunting Eichmann
This is a fascinating account of the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires by Israeli agents, an event…
Cleopatra’s Daughter
In 30 BC, after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleopatra, their twin children, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene,…
Drood
Editors' choice
In 1865, Charles Dickens, returning from a holiday with his mistress and her mother, is involved in the disastrous…
A Quiet Flame
Editors' choice
Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph…
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