Multi-Period

Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

By Jane Robinson - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

This remarkable story is about opportunities that the developed world generally now takes for granted. It serves as a timely reminder of how ‘...Read Review

King Arthur’s Bones

By The Medieval Murderers - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is an anthology of mystery novellas by the writing team of Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, and Philip Gooden, ...Read Review

Pirate Hunter

By Tom Morrisey - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureInspirational

This story interweaves between the 18th century in the West Indies and Key West of the 21st century. Captain Henry Thatch, a notorious ...Read Review

New York: The Novel

By Edward Rutherfurd - Published 2009

Genres:

Epic

Edward Rutherfurd says that “New York’s magnificent gift to the storyteller is a four-century history as exciting as that of any place ...Read Review

The Book of the Alchemist

By Adam Williams - Published 2009

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Imagine the Arabian Nights transposed to the Spanish Civil War, or rather the narrator transposed to Andalusia in 1938, for like Scheherazade the narrator ...Read Review

Stone’s Fall

By Iain Pears - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by a number ...Read Review

All the Nice Girls

By Joan Bakewell - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

  It’s a pity this book has come up for review for the autumn magazine as it is a perfect beach read. ...Read Review

The Celtic Revolution

By Simon Young - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

In his introduction to The Celtic Revolution, Simon Young tells us he has “erred on the side of comprehensibility” in this succinct but ...Read Review

The Hidden Oasis

By Paul Sussman - Published 2009

Genres:

Thriller

The Hidden Oasis brings together a group of priests who hide a mysterious object in the desert in the year 2152 BC. Bedouin tribesmen, ...Read Review

A Winding Road

By Jonathan Tulloch - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

The circumstances surrounding a masterpiece’s creation – witness Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – is fertile ground for fiction writers. In A ...Read Review