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The King’s Revenge
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King Charles I was executed in 1649, his death warrant signed by 57 men.Twelve years later, the monarchy restored, King Charles II took the ...Read Review
The Whispering City
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Barcelona in 1952. When glamorous widow, Mariona Sobrerroca, is found murdered in her mansion, Inspector Isidro Castro is assigned to the investigation. Young newspaper ...Read Review
The Churchill Secret: KBO
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On 23 June 1953, after entertaining an Italian delegation to a witty after-dinner speech, Prime Minister Churchill, aged 79, suffered a major stroke. His deputy, Foreign ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Sword
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This is certainly a book with a difference. It is cited as fiction, but I would suggest that that is far from the ...Read Review
Every Man for Himself
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This is a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, originally published in 1996 and now reissued, as have been so many other ...Read Review
Crusoe’s Daughter
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Crusoe’s Daughter, published in 1986, has been reissued to fill the gap between Gardam’s last novel (God on the Rocks, 2010) and her ...Read Review
The Glass Room
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This novel’s setting is an ultra-modern house, built in the late 1920s in what is now the Czech Republic. The characters are ...Read Review
The Book of Fathers
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Spanning 300 years and twelve generations of the Csillag family, Vamos’s saga represents the signs of the zodiac, encompassing what he sees as ...Read Review
Cold War
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This book was first published in 1998, having its origins in a TV series. Now reprinted, it has a new introduction by Peter Hennessy (...Read Review
Sweetsmoke
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By 1862, a slave named Cassius has worked his entire life for the white plantation owner of Sweetsmoke. Because of his experience as a ...Read Review