2017
Katharina: Deliverance
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This is an engrossing tale about the life of Katharina von Bora, the wife of Martin Luther, the controversial priest who defied the ...Read Review
The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
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In 1936 in Singapore, teenage orphan Su Lin knows that her uncle wants to give her away in marriage to a suitable husband—that ...Read Review
Lucky Button
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1970s London: Jonah has always struggled to fit in at school. He’s too busy to make friends, spending his time caring for ...Read Review
The Battle for England
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I remember when I was a schoolboy reading a passage from Churchill’s war memoirs in which he half-regretted that Hitler had never ...Read Review
The Midnight Peacock (The Sinclair’s Mysteries)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
I’ve long argued that much of today’s best literature is written for children, and Katherine Woodfine’s The Mystery of the ...Read Review
Pleasing Mr Pepys
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Deb Willett is employed in the household of the diarist Samuel Pepys as a companion for his wife. She is there to help ...Read Review
Echo Hall
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Newly married Ruth Flint comes to live at Echo Hall on the Anglo-Welsh border in 1990 with her husband, Adam. His grandfather, Jack, is ...Read Review
Mr Nicholls: A Brontë Story
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Juliet Heslewood takes a risk in subtitling her novel “a Brontë story”. There are those who, faced with a hint of the Fitzgeralds ...Read Review
The Butcher’s Block (A Dan Foster Mystery)
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This is the second Georgian-era murder-mystery featuring Bow Street Runner, Dan Foster. When a pair of bodysnatchers are arrested taking a basket of ...Read Review
The Silver Gun (Art Deco Mystery)
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In 1936, Lane Sanders is the new personal aide to the larger-than-life 99th mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia. When she is suddenly ...Read Review