Hodder & Stoughton
The King’s Witch
Editors' choice
Once an attendant and healer to Queen Elizabeth I, Frances Gorges has no interest in joining the court of James…
Retribution
Retribution is the third and final instalment of Riches’ trilogy covering the Batavian revolt of 69 AD, aka the Year…
Women of the Dunes
In three interwoven storylines, the legend of a Viking woman and a solitary monk on a remote Scottish island comes…
Pandora’s Boy
This is another story in the Falco series set in Rome in the first century AD. It concerns Falco’s daughter,…
The Baltic Prize
The Baltic Prize takes us to Scandinavia at the beginning of the 19th century. The Anglo-Russian War, September 1807–1812, took…
The Prince & the Whitechapel Murders
After an eight year wait, here is a further instalment in the adventures of Major George ‘Zulu’ Hart, hero of…
The Wicked Cometh
This is a beautiful book, inside and out. For once you can judge a book by its cover, in this…
Onslaught
This is the second volume of Riches’ new series, The Centurions, following his successful Empire series comprising nine novels. In…
100 Nasty Women of History
Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton “nasty” seems to have been the genesis for this compilation by satirist Hannah Jewell, and…
City of Masks
This is the third novel in Sykes’ Somershill Manor series, but can be read as a standalone. Set in 1358…
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