Ann Lyon
The Aquila Project
London, June 1894. The Prince of Wales arrives to open Tower Bridge; the police discover a bomb in one of…
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
I would not call myself a Heyer fan as such, but a book on Regency life made an enjoyable prospect…
The Scent of Jasmine
Melody Craven is a poor relation, orphaned by a cholera epidemic in India and given refuge by her Uncle Frederick…
Blood Rock
Summer 1565. The Knights of St John are under siege on the small island of Malta, facing the full might…
Last Stand at Majuba Hill
Inside John Wilcox is there a factual historian struggling to get out? In their fourth outing, Simon Fonthill and 352…
Rose Alley
Audrey Howard’s new book is classic Victorian melodrama. From the foetid Liverpool slum of the title, Queenie Logan and her…
A Rare Interest in Corpses
In Victorian England many a penniless young woman of ‘good’ family found that the only form of paid employment…
Children of War
During the Munich Crisis, my father, aged ten, joined his friends in digging trenches. On 3 September, 1939, he…
The Sinking of the Lancastria
It is not widely known that after the Dunkirk evacuation 150,000 British servicemen remained in France, mainly second-line troops…
The Night Watch
I must admit to an instinctive lack of sympathy for this book. First, I am wary of books from an…
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