Sarah Cuthbertson
Death on the Ice
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As every British schoolchild used to know, Captain Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition to win the South Pole for…
The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000
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This timely, perceptive analysis gives a much-maligned genre its proper significance in the canon of English literature. Diana Wallace sets…
The Sword of Revenge
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This is the second of a trilogy set in the Roman Republic during the period before Julius Caesar. The first…
Dark North
Were there Africans in the Roman Army? The Historia Augusta describes an Ethiopian soldier presenting Emperor Septimius Severus with…
Lachlan’s War
Usually I am allergic to novels like this, in which the story is told in the present tense. The technique…
Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
At the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeated his brother Cyrus’s challenge to his…
Crimson Portrait
In 1915, Catherine, an Englishwoman grieving for her husband who has died on a WWI battlefield, turns over their country…
The Religion
British novelist Tim Willocks is good at evoking the unfamiliar, so perhaps it’s inevitable that he should turn eventually to…
The Plimsoll Sensation
Samuel Plimsoll was a self-made Victorian who became an MP and, against considerable opposition, championed the introduction of what became…
Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls
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Britannia, 117 AD. Having just joined the hospital staff at the Roman legionary fortress of Deva (Chester), world-weary surgeon Gaius…
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