Hodder & Stoughton
Dandy Gilver and a Most Misleading Habit
I enjoy this historical crime series set in interwar Scotland. In the early books Dandy is bored with her life…
Sons of the Blood: New World Rising
1483. Jack Wynter, illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Vaughan, is sent to Spain with a secret document – a map, which…
Empire IX: Altar of Blood
The ninth book in Riches’ highly acclaimed Empire sequence, Altar of Blood takes the protagonists, centurion Marcus Aquila and supporting…
A Death at Fountains Abbey
Third in the Thomas Hawkins series, after The Devil in the Marshalsea and The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, this…
The Graveyard of the Hesperides
Flavia Albia is about to marry the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, in a formal wedding, and her sisters are thrilled to…
Children of Earth and Sky
Editors' choice
This is a historical fantasy. Though of Kay’s own creation, the world is closely based upon Eastern Europe in the…
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant
Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels have sparked a renewed interest in Thomas Cromwell, a man best known for engineering Anne Boleyn’s…
Dandy Gilver & the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
The Dandy Gilver novels are a 1930s pastiche, imitating and gently satirising the detective novels of the Golden Age (Dorothy…
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
Pity Lucrezia Borgia and the legacy of historical gossip permanently attached to her. Simply saying the name conjures up titillating…
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head
Editors' choice
1930s New York. Times are hard for Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities and Wonders. The museum, which has wonders…
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