Gordon O'Sullivan
The Salt Road
In The Salt Road, Jane Johnson creates twin narratives about women from very different cultures who both take the eponymous…
On His Majesty’s Service
Matthew Hervey is back in the saddle after a three-year absence. The eleventh novel in the series, On His Majesty’s…
The Nine Lives of Otto Katz
Otto Katz was never a man to hide his light under a bushel, enthralling Hollywood in the Thirties with his…
The Perfect Nazi
Throughout his childhood, television producer Martin Davidson thought his grandfather was simply a retired German dentist, a dominant and sometimes…
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
The chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, Lucy Worsley, has written this book to tie in with her television series…
Odin’s Wolves
Raven and his comrades in the Fellowship return in the final part of Giles Kristian’s Norse trilogy. In Odin’s Wolves,…
The Sweet Smell of Decay
London 1664. Charles II is the new king, and the city is coming to terms with new religious and political…
Sons of Thunder
This is the second book of the Raven series, and it follows on closely from the first adventure. Raven and…
Sons of Thunder
This is the second book of the Raven series, and it follows on closely from the first adventure. Raven and…
Garlands of Gold
Set in 17th-century Rotterdam, this is the tale of Saskia, a lady’s maid to a wealthy merchant’s wife. Saskia’s real…
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