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The Convenient Marriage

By Georgette Heyer - Published 2013 (c 1934)

Genres:

Romance

Not Regency but the 1770s; revolution in the air has not penetrated the world of scented boudoirs. The ton follows a trend of ...Read Review

Winnie and Wolf

By A.N. Wilson - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The title refers to Winifred Wagner, the English wife of Richard Wagner’s son Siegfried, and Wolf, the self-chosen nickname of Adolf Hitler. ...Read Review

Knights of the Cross

By Tom Harper - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

In the author’s historical note at the back of the volume, he notes the “catalogue of greed, intrigue, treachery and extraordinary violence ...Read Review

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By Wu Ming - Published 2006

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Wu Ming is a collective of novelists meaning “no-name” in Chinese; most of the same collective was responsible for the Luther Blissett novel ...Read Review

Knife Edge (The Royal Marines Saga #5)

By Douglas Reeman - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Military

Towards the end of the 20th century Lieutenant Ross Blackwood contemplates the bleak future of the Royal Marines as they are compelled to ...Read Review

Mediterranean Winter

By Robert D. Kaplan - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Nonfiction

This book is sub-titled A Journey through History and that describes it exactly. It is an account of Kaplan’s journeys as a ...Read Review

White Stone Day

By John MacLachlan Gray - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in gritty Victorian London in 1858, Gray’s second book follows A Fiend in Human, his first novel which, likewise, was filled with ...Read Review

Devil’s Cub

By Georgette Heyer - Published 1991 (UK)Published 2003 US (c1932)

Genres:

Romance

The “Devil’s Cub” is Dominic, Marquis of Vidal, one of the wildest rakes in Georgian England. Nothing is too outré for Vidal – ...Read Review

Twelve Seconds to Live

By Douglas Reeman - Published 2003Published 2003 (UK)

Genres:

MilitaryNautical

Douglas Reeman is as fine a writer on warships and the crews that live and die on them as one can find in ...Read Review