Bloomsbury
Ophelia
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Ophelia’s story emanates from the Shakespearian play Hamlet. This is what might have happened to Ophelia if she had survived. Born of ...Read Review
Song for Eloise
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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
The Indian Clerk
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The first issue a historical fiction writer needs to solve is how much research to include. Too little and the work lacks foundation; ...Read Review
My Dirty Little Book Of Stolen Time
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Charlotte is a whore in Copenhagen. It is 1897, and business is bad, so she and Fru Schleswig, an older woman who has accompanied ...Read Review
The Ladies Of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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Historical FantasyShort Stories
From the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell comes this collection of short tales of magic and mayhem. When Strange visits the ...Read Review
Orphan Of The Sun
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This story is set in the village of the tomb builders in the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Egypt, and centres on ...Read Review
The Falconer’s Knot
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Silvano’s dagger is found in the body of a man whose wife he had been serenading. He seeks sanctuary with the Franciscans ...Read Review
The Journal of Dora Damage
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Dora Damage has a name straight from Dickens, and in fact her tale would not be out of place in that author’s ...Read Review
Austerity Britain, 1945-51
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Try to imagine a world without supermarkets, television, automatic washing machines, personal computers, package holidays with almost every necessity rationed, and you might ...Read Review
Peony in Love
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Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women over a hundred ...Read Review
