Edward James
The Fall of the Stone City
The Fall of the Stone City is a translation form the Albanian of a short novel by Ismail Kadare, set…
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
What do you know about the Taiping Rebellion, or the Taiping Civil War as Stephen Platt prefers to call it?…
Little People
This is a Gothic novel set in Australia. Unbelievable! –Australia must be the least Gothic country on earth, but here…
The House of Rumour
At first sight this is a conspiracy thriller, although more ‘literary’ than most, as one would expect from Sceptre. It…
Abdication
Abdication takes its title from the Abdication Crisis of 1936, but it could as easily have been entitled 1936. Starting…
Traitor
This is the fourth in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. John is Will’s older brother and an ‘intelligencer’ in the Queen’s…
The Scarlet Ribbon
If you are into obstetrics this is the book for you. It begins with a caesarean section (performed with a…
A Parachute in the Lime Tree
At first sight this is a standard POW romance – German prisoner/local girl. This time, however, there are significant differences.…
Pure
Editors' choice
Pure is a novel about the clearance of the cemetery at Les Innocents in Paris in 1785 and the transportation…
The Columbus Affair
This is a conspiracy thriller, a Quest that keeps closely to the rules of the genre, rules which Steve Berry…
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