Apollo
Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker
Genres:
Margaret Beaufort was a descendant of King Edward III. As a consequence of the carnage of the Wars of the Roses, she and ...Read Review
Golgotha
Genres:
After a short prologue set in 80,000 BCE involving a woman named Eve who links two Neanderthal tribes together, the novel is divided into ...Read Review
The Bride Stone
Genres:
When Duval is released from La Force, the infamous political prison in Revolutionary Paris, he returns to London to discover that his father, ...Read Review
Boudicca’s Daughter
Genres:
Britain, AD 60: History has not preserved the names of Boudicca’s two daughters, gang-raped by Roman soldiers and their mother flogged (as recorded ...Read Review
Six Lives
Genres:
Six Lives gives you what it says on the cover, six short stories, each centred on a different character (3 men and 3 women, English, ...Read Review
The Colonel and the Eunuch
Genres:
Mai Jia is China’s best-selling author, whose books have sold over 10 million copies. So what is it that the Chinese read, and ...Read Review
The Cook of Castamar
Genres:
In this period drama, set in Madrid in 1720, Clara, high-born but without means, obtains a position as assistant cook in the palace of ...Read Review
Adama
Genres:
This novel covers Israel’s past century with different sections focusing on different people. The disjointed structure makes it difficult to follow at ...Read Review
The Temple of Fortuna (The Wolf Den Trilogy)
Genres:
Plinia Amara has risen in the world from her humble beginnings as a prostitute in the Wolf Den (brothel) in Pompeii. Now a ...Read Review
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49
Genres:
Not so long ago, Britain ruled a slice of the European continent, half the size of the UK and with about half the ...Read Review
