Edward James
The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville is a bestselling Australian author who has already written about her country’s convict past. In The Lieutenant she…
Hitler’s War: September 1938 — War is declared
Many people regard alternative history as neither legitimate history nor legitimate historical fiction. Yet the past has meaning only in…
The Saffron Gate
Editors' choice
This book was a delightful surprise. I do not usually review romantic fiction, but this arrived just after I had…
The Historical Novel
The New Critical Idiom is a series of short introductory guides to literary criticism published by Routledge. There are over…
The Book of the Alchemist
Editors' choice
Imagine the Arabian Nights transposed to the Spanish Civil War, or rather the narrator transposed to Andalusia in 1938, for…
Sunnyside
Editors' choice
Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is…
Martyr
Welcome another Tudor detective. This one is John Shakespeare, elder brother of the famous Will (who makes a cameo appearance…
The Guardians of the Covenant
If you liked The Da Vinci Code (and millions did despite the ridicule) then you will be delighted with The…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
I knew Melvyn Bragg at Oxford; I left college the term before the action in Remember Me begins, so I…
The Creator’s Map
For the first few chapters, this is a Da Vinci Code-style thriller. Rival groups of unscrupulous men from sinister organisations…
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