Allison & Busby
Kingdom Lock
In 1914 it is recognised that future wars will be won or lost by black gold; keeping the oil pipelines…
Prince of Shadows
Did you ever wonder, when reading Romeo and Juliet, about the staid, reasonable, slightly dull Benvolio? If you did, in…
The French Promise
Having read The Lavender Keeper, the first in this series, I was interested to follow the developments in the story…
Bayonets Across the Border
The tribes are gathering, putting aside intertribal feuding to take on a worthier foe, the British Empire at the peak…
A Little Murder
Editors' choice
Marcia Beasley is found shot through the head at her home in St Johns Wood, London, wearing nothing but a…
A Divided Command
Lieutenant John Pearce – he of the unorthodox career, from illegally pressed seaman to officer – is back for his…
Mansfield Revisited
This welcome reprint of Joan Aiken’s 1984 sequel to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park tells the story of Fanny’s younger sister,…
The September Garden
Sweet Nell and lovely, half-French Sylvie (who looks like Vivien Leigh) are first cousins, but don’t get along terribly well.…
Hearts of Darkness
In 1666 the Great Plague no longer ravages London, but elsewhere this cruel disease is at its height. The villagers…
Five Dead Canaries
1916. In the third of Marston’s Home Front Detective series, six young female ‘canaries’ from a munitions factory supplying the…
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