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Darkness Rising
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If we talked about historical novels like a pâtissier then amongst the rich and deeply satisfying tortes would be the novels by ...Read Review
The Hawk
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Smalley has been hailed as the heir to those great writers of naval historical fiction, Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester. I ...Read Review
The Glory Boys
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The Mediterranean, 1943. The tide of war is beginning to turn. Lieutenant-Commander Robert Kearton has just taken charge of a newly-formed flotilla of motor ...Read Review
Empire Rising
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Mesopotamia, 3157 BC. A bloody tyrant is dead in Akkad, and the city is ruled by erstwhile wild man, Eskkar, and Trella, his farsighted ...Read Review
A Vigil of Spies
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The time is September 1373 and the Archbishop of York, John Thoresby, is dying in his palace at Bishopsthorpe. Princess Joan, the fair Maid ...Read Review
Saturnalia
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Saturnalia was a Roman holiday that can best be compared to Las Vegas at its most riotous. That most famous of all Roman “...Read Review
Lieutenant Fury
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1793. In France, the Royalists are clinging to power in Toulon, but the Republicans are gaining ground. Lieutenant Fury, returning from India, finds that ...Read Review
Tilly True
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Tilly True is another of Dilly Court’s sagas set in Victorian London. It’s a big read, over 500 pages, spanning several years, ...Read Review
Barbary Coast
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Avast m’hearties! All lovers of nautical tales in Hornblower fashion: here’s another series for you to enjoy. James Hayter is our ...Read Review
The Cockney Sparrow
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1889. Struggling to make a living in the slums of Cheapside, London, Clemency Skinner supports her crippled brother Jack and alcoholic mother Edith by ...Read Review
