2020
Fortress of Fury
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AD 647. Anglo Saxon Britain. Penda of Mercia has travelled north with his allies. Beobrand, leader of men, warrior, brave and feared by his ...Read Review
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France
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In 2000, Patrick Marnham published a biography of Jean Moulin, General de Gaulle’s delegated leader of the French Resistance in World War Two. ...Read Review
Under the Mistletoe
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This World War Two story about 15-year-old runaway orphans joining the NAAFI was for me too far-fetched, too pat, with way too many ...Read Review
The Dress Shop on King Street (Heirloom Secrets)
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This is a multi-timeline novel that begins in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860. Rose, enslaved to a wicked family, has been told that her ...Read Review
A Portrait of Loyalty (The Codebreakers)
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1918: Zivon Marin, a skilled cryptographer, flees Russia and the Bolsheviks who have murdered his fiancée. A train wreck separates him from his ...Read Review
Play the Red Queen
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A couple of cops with the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division in Saigon, 1963, are charged with stopping “the red queen,” a femme fatale ...Read Review
A Marquis in Want of a Wife (Liberated Ladies, 3)
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1815. Prudence Scott is a rather naive young woman, more interested in scholarly pursuits than fashion, but after being seduced by the glib flattery ...Read Review
The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses
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Curzon sketches the lives of King George III of England and Queen Charlotte’s six unusual daughters in this entertaining history. Though devoted ...Read Review
The Berlin Girl: A Novel of World War II
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Berlin, 1938: in Robotham’s third novel on a World War II theme, Georgie Young, a journalist and admirer of Martha Gellhorn, takes her ...Read Review
The Wild High Places
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Raised in his foster father’s household of the warrior Rajput caste on the western edge of the early British Raj, young Jefferji ...Read Review
