Bloomsbury

John

By Niall Williams - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Blind and exiled, the disciple John is passing his existence on the isle of Patmos with a small band of devoted followers. Well, ...Read Review

Battle Fleet : Trafalgar — 1805

By Paul Dowswell - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young AdultNautical

(1) In this third Sam Witchall adventure, Sam and his friend Richard have to work their passage home from Sydney to London on the ...Read Review

Pavel and I

By Dan Vyleta - Published 2008

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

  Set in Berlin during the deadly cold Christmas season of 1946, this is a story of intrigue and murder, peopled with armies and ...Read Review

A Perfect Waiter

By Alain Claude Sulzer (trans. John Brownjohn) - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

  Erneste is a perfect waiter: now, in 1966 at the Restaurant am Berg; in 1934, at the Grand Hotel in Giessbach, Switzerland; and in ...Read Review

Daphne

By Justine Picardie - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiteraryMystery/Crime

Here is a novel which combines the life stories and the novels of Daphne du Maurier and the Brontës, a literary mystery ...Read Review

Terra Incognita

By Ruth Downie - Published 2008

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

This is the second installment in the trials and tribulations of our memorable hero, Medicus Gaius Petreius Ruso, a Gaul serving with the ...Read Review

In the House of the Magician

By Mary Hooper - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

(1) 1570s, Elizabethan England. When country girl Lucy flees from her drunken father and sets off to London to find work, she has no ...Read Review

Song for Eloise

By Leigh Sauerwein - Published 2004Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Eloise’s life in 12th-century France is happy until at fifteen she is married to a man twice her age. Her political match ...Read Review

Coward on the Beach

By James Delingpole - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Dick Coward might be a coward by name but not by nature. He is a bona fide hero; unfortunately, no one else sees ...Read Review

Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel

By Edmund White - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Edmund White uses the life of Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, to present this interesting novel-within-a-novel. Crane is in ...Read Review