Neville Firman
The Keeper of Secrets
Editors' choice
This is certainly much more than a run-of-the-mill historical crime novel. A young and idealistic clergyman, the Reverend Tobias Campion,…
The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World
The Revolution of 1688 has been called ‘bloodless’. On the whole the description holds. But as Patrick Dillon’s fascinating book…
The Last Duel
A fascinating insight into the medieval mindset, a world in which people believed that the question of who had…
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