Sarah Bower
In Zodiac Light
This novel is bound to invite comparison with Pat Barker’s Regeneration: set in an asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, its ostensible…
Anarchy and Old Dogs
This is the fourth in Cotterill’s much-praised series about Dr. Siri Paiboun, national coroner of The People’s Democratic Republic of…
Daphne
Here is a novel which combines the life stories and the novels of Daphne du Maurier and the Brontës, a…
The Seventh Well
Editors' choice
The Seventh Well was originally published in East Germany in 1971, but not until its reissue in 2006 did…
Mutiny on the Bounty
In December 1787, a fourteen-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, is arrested in Portsmouth for picking the pocket of a mysterious…
The Russian Concubine
As one of the characters remarks early in this novel, Russian and Chinese history is of little interest to…
The Secret War
At the risk of laying myself open to accusations of gender bias, let me say right away, The Secret War…
Whitethorn
Editors' choice
Do not be misled by the blurb on the back cover of Bryce Courtenay’s new novel. The Second World War…
A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths
This is an absorbing hotch potch of a book, more in the tradition of Graves’s Greek Myths than a straightforward…
Hatfield’s Herbal
To ensure your partner’s fidelity, ladies, sprinkle over his chest a mixture prepared from butterbur, foxglove, royal fern and an…
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