Edward James
The Water Doctor’s Daughters
This is true crime and also a Victorian melodrama which outdoes any fictional Victorian melodrama I have ever read. It…
The Orpheus Descent
At first sight this is a conspiracy novel of a type familiar over the last ten years. An archaeologist/researcher-of-some-sort discovers…
The People Speak
You probably know Colin Firth better as an actor than an author, so it may be no surprise to learn…
The Annals of Sherlock Holmes
This is Paul Gilbert’s third book of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, consisting of three long short stories (or novellas as he…
The Heretics
This is the fifth novel in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. For the uninitiated, John Shakespeare is Will Shakespeare’s fictional elder…
Hurricane Hole
Hurricane Hole is a WW2 thriller set in the Bahamas. Since this was not a very active theatre of war,…
The Gilded Lily
Two teenage sisters, Ella and Sadie, escape from rural poverty to seek a living in Restoration London. We think we…
Hunter’s Rage
1643: This is year three of the English Civil War, and the third book in Michael Arnold’s ‘Stryker’ series. It…
The Shadow of Treason
This is a brisk little thriller set in the last months of WW2, during the V2 (rocket) attack on London…
Shadows in the Sky
Verity and Clemency are sisters, daughters of a senior naval officer, who are respectively 17 and 18 at the outbreak…
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