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Scapegallows
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
