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The King’s Witch
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Once an attendant and healer to Queen Elizabeth I, Frances Gorges has no interest in joining the court of James I. Anti-papist to ...Read Review
Friends and Traitors
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Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy has known Guy Burgess since the mid-1930s. Burgess, a product of Cambridge and a Russian ...Read Review
The Prague Sonata
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In 1939, the Nazis invade Prague and begin looting Czechoslovakia’s cultural treasures. Otylie Bártošova watches in dread, wondering how to protect ...Read Review
Birdcage Walk
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Bristol in the latter decade of the 18th century. Elizabeth (or Lizzie as she is mostly known), narrates the story in the first ...Read Review
See What I Have Done
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Biographical FictionLiteraryMystery/Crime
Lizzie Borden’s acquittal for the murder of her father and stepmother has already generated numerous books, films and plays, even musicals. Whether ...Read Review
Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
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Disagreement frequently elicits feelings of fear of the unknown. So it’s no surprise when the animosity between the Federalists and Democrat-Republicans in ...Read Review
Exposure
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London 1960. Simon Callington is a relatively junior civil servant, working in naval intelligence. He has a German-born Jewish wife, Lily, who was brought ...Read Review
Euphoria
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In the 1930s, in the heyday of anthropologists studying rapidly vanishing tribes, controversial American Nell Stone and her Australian husband, Fen, come out ...Read Review
The Lie
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Cornwall 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the Great War as an infantryman; with his mother, his only relation, having died whilst he was serving ...Read Review
Then We Take Berlin
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This is really two stories, both centring on Berlin. The first begins in 1941 when John Holderness, commonly known as Wilderness, finds himself living ...Read Review
