Harvill Secker
The Second Murderer
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The 1940s in a sweltering Los Angeles. The city is full of bottle-blonde femme fatales, actors who never made it, and men looking ...Read Review
Loot
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The word that does justice to the British Raj’s plunder in India had to be borrowed: “Loot,” as Tania James has explained ...Read Review
The Ascent
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This novel is part of the more recent trend towards what is called autofiction, in which writers incorporate elements of their own lives ...Read Review
My Father’s House (The Rome Escape Line Trilogy, 1)
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A black Daimler races through the war-torn streets of Rome for a hospital on a dark December night—sleet and rain, car swerving, ...Read Review
Pandora
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Set during the cold wet year of 1799, in the Dickensian milieu of a struggling London shop of antiquities, this story’s protagonists are ...Read Review
Two Storm Wood
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The Great War continues to be a fertile source of fiction for writers, even over 100 years after the cessation of hostilities. This is ...Read Review
The Shadows of Men (Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries)
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1920s Calcutta can be a perilous place. Muslim and Hindu tensions are running high, and the city is a tinderbox awaiting a match. ...Read Review
China Room
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Trauma and endurance form the complex legacy passed on by a young woman, trapped in a loveless marriage in Punjab in 1929, to her ...Read Review
Civilisations
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The book opens in AD 1000. Freydis Eriksdottir, Erik the Red’s daughter, leads a band of Viking warriors who travel as far as ...Read Review
The Autumn of the Ace
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Daniel Pitt served his country as an RAF fighter pilot in the First World War and a spy for the Special Operations Executive ...Read Review