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The Whispering City
Barcelona in 1952. When glamorous widow, Mariona Sobrerroca, is found murdered in her mansion, Inspector Isidro Castro is assigned to…
The Churchill Secret: KBO
On 23 June 1953, after entertaining an Italian delegation to a witty after-dinner speech, Prime Minister Churchill, aged 79, suffered…
In the Shadow of the Sword
This is certainly a book with a difference. It is cited as fiction, but I would suggest that that is…
Every Man for Himself
This is a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, originally published in 1996 and now reissued, as have…
Crusoe’s Daughter
Crusoe’s Daughter, published in 1986, has been reissued to fill the gap between Gardam’s last novel (God on the Rocks,…
The Book of Fathers
Spanning 300 years and twelve generations of the Csillag family, Vamos’s saga represents the signs of the zodiac, encompassing what…
The Glass Room
This novel’s setting is an ultra-modern house, built in the late 1920s in what is now the Czech Republic. The…
Cold War
This book was first published in 1998, having its origins in a TV series. Now reprinted, it has a new…
Sweetsmoke
By 1862, a slave named Cassius has worked his entire life for the white plantation owner of Sweetsmoke. Because of…
The Mutiny
India, 1857. Do not be misled by the gentle opening scene where Lady Blackstock entertains officers’ wives. They are about…
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