Editors' Choice

Scapegallows

By Carol Birch - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

A ‘scapegallows’ is one who deserves and has narrowly escaped hanging. One such is Margaret Catchpole, born in Suffolk, who lived a double ...Read Review

Whitethorn

By Bryce Courtenay - Published 2007

Genres:

Adventure

Do not be misled by the blurb on the back cover of Bryce Courtenay’s new novel. The Second World War does indeed ...Read Review

The Anatomy of Deception

By Lawrence Goldstone - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Ephraim Carroll is a young physician in late 19th-century Philadelphia who counts himself lucky to be in the orbit of one of the ...Read Review

The Maytrees

By Annie Dillard - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

  The novel opens in Provincetown, Massachusetts, just after the Second World War. Toby Maytree, a thirty-year-old poet and part-time house-mover, meets Lou ...Read Review

The Principessa

By Christie Dickason - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeRomance

We first met the Firemaster, Francis Quoynt, embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot in the pages of The Firemaster’s Mistress. As this new ...Read Review

The Black Dove

By Steve Hockensmith - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

The long and the short of the Amlingmeyer brothers are back with a roar for their third adventure, this time on the streets ...Read Review

The Expeditions

By Karl Iagnemma - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureLiterary

Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the spring of 1844, ...Read Review

The Bloodstone Papers

By Glen Duncan - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeSaga

This story about an Anglo-Indian family, and the bloodstone ring that was stolen from them during the last days of the British Raj, ...Read Review

Not Yet Drown’d

By Peg Kingman - Published 2007

Genres:

Adventure

Catherine MacDonald, a young Scottish widow who has temporarily settled into the Edinburgh home of her older brother, finds her quiet life suddenly ...Read Review

Bury Her Deep

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Captivating and beautifully written, this third book in the Dandy Gilver mystery series is set in 1920s Scotland. Our heroine, a respectable matron ...Read Review

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