Ann Northfield
The Rake’s Challenge
The novel opens with alternate chapters depicting the very different lives of the two main characters. First we have the…
Rising Blood
A strange, strange novel. We begin pretty much in the middle as the hero, Charlie Doig, is on a barge…
Obedience
The last three remaining nuns are facing the closure of their convent – two are destined for an old people’s…
Revenger
This is the second novel by Clements featuring the Elizabethan ‘intelligencer’, John Shakespeare. His more famous younger brother pops up…
The Kirilov Star
Beginning in November 1920, this novel follows the life and struggles of Lydia Kirilova, who leaves Russia as a small…
A Mother’s Secret
If you like books with a pretty girl on the front dressed in period costume looking meaningful and mysterious, perhaps…
Betrayal at Lisson Grove
It is 1895, a time of political upheaval in various parts of Europe. Inspector Pitt of Scotland Yard Special Branch…
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Editors' choice
The year is 1986, and widower Henry Lee sees items from World War II discovered intact in a local hotel.…
The Eloquence of Desire
Set in the 1950s, the book begins with George travelling home on the tube and wondering how he is going…
Bleakly Hall
Editors' choice
After reviewing and very much enjoying Ms di Rollo’s first novel, A Proper Education for Girls, I eagerly awaited this,…
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