Edward James
The Year After | The Last Summer
Editors' choice
Occasionally the accidents of publishing bring out two books in the same season which neatly complement each other. The Last…
Brethren
Brethren is a new edition of Robyn Young’s best-seller first published in 2006, the first of her Brethren trilogy. The…
Catching the Tide
This is certainly ‘a good read’ at almost 600 pages. I found it quite a challenge, as there is no…
Silk Road
The Knights Templar and the Mongol Empire have both been popular topics among historical novelists in recent years; this novel…
Relic
Relic is unashamedly indebted to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, which it lists in its bibliography, along with The Holy…
Staying on Past the Terminus
One of the reviewers for this journal commented on Robert Douglas’s previous novel, Whose Turn for the Stairs, that it…
Devil’s Charge
When I was at school our history books gave the impression that the English Civil War was a rather gentlemanly…
The Paper Garden
This is the story of an 18th century English lady who in old age takes up composing pictures of flowers…
A Lily of the Field
Editors' choice
This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no…
The Long Song
Editors' choice
Andrea Levy’s previous books have chronicled the experience of Jamaican immigrants in post-war Britain. In The Long Song she steps…
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