Alan Fisk
Brief Lives that Live Forever
This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian…
The Mussolini Canal
Editors' choice
Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini…
Blockade Runner
Shipping clerk Tom Wells impresses his employers in 1861 London so much that they entrust him with the administration of…
Clash of Empires: The Red Sea
This is a sequel to Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, which I have not read and the HNR did…
Money and the Middle Ages
This is a scholarly, yet brief and readable, study of the development and use of money in the High Middle…
Poseidon’s Spear
Distraught over the death of his wife, Aristemnos — bronzesmith, warrior, and survivor of the battle of Marathon — flings…
A Journey to Nowhere
While living in Montreal in 1969, the author had an affair with a blonde called Māra. She told him that…
Raphael: A Passionate Life
Raphael Santi was the painter who did the most to bring art forward from its mediaeval traditions into the glories…
The Garden of Evening Mists
Malaysian Chinese Judge Teoh Yun Ling takes early retirement from the Bench in 1987 without telling anyone why. Now free…
Cold Cruel Winter
This is the second novel about the crime-solving exploits of Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds in the 1730s, and follows…
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