Ann Lyon
The Fallen Kings
January 1918, and volume 32 of the Morland Saga. No conscientious objectors here; all the adult Morlands are doing their…
King of Kings
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship,’ proclaims The Times. As an academic who tries to write historical fiction I am…
An Ill Wind
It is always awkward when you start reading a series several books in, and it took me some time to…
The Gutenberg Revolution
At the age of twelve I wrote in a school essay that Johann Gutenberg was the inventor of printing, only…
The Fraud
The time is the 18th century. The Marshalls are a faded gentry family living in Bristol. After both parents and…
Cold Blood
As the Bolsheviks seize power, Charlie Doig, half-Scot, half-Russian, sets off in pursuit of personal vengeance. Acquiring an armoured train…
Leningrad: State of Siege
The city that was Leningrad for seventy years is St Petersburg again, and trades mainly on its imperial past. But…
The Interrogator
We all know that the British managed to break the German ‘Enigma’ code during World War II, but what of…
Envoy of the Black Pine
‘This is a very strange book,’ I was told after I had agreed to review it. It moves between the…
$panish Fly
$panish Fly (the dollar sign indicates the main characters’ preoccupation) is set in 1939, in the ‘dustbowl’ of the south-eastern…
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