Hutchinson
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
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London 1763, and brothers Edgar and Benjamin Bowen are to embark upon The Grand Tour to mainland Europe. They are close in age, around ...Read Review
Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
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Writing a sequel can be a difficult exercise, more than seems obvious from a cursory consideration of the issue; the writer needs to ...Read Review
V2
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Set in 1944, with the war in Europe going badly for Hitler, this new historical thriller by Robert Harris follows two main characters. Rudi ...Read Review
The German Heiress (US) / Finding Clara (UK)
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Nearly two years after the war, Clara Falkenberg, the daughter and surviving heir to her family’s ironworks factory, has taken on an ...Read Review
Swan Song
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As it explores the motives behind author Truman Capote’s decision to write a roman à clef betraying the secrets of his longtime confidantes, ...Read Review
Daisy Jones & The Six
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A story about a rock band that climbs to the top of the charts in the Seventies, attaining iconic status, only to fall ...Read Review
Jeeves and the King of Clubs
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The author has only dashed, well, shoved out a rather acceptable story about P.G. Wodehouse’s perpetual and much-loved hero Bertie Wooster, ...Read Review
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots
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This very readable and fast-paced biography relates the story of Mary Stuart in a fresh and engaging way. As in any book on ...Read Review
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
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In 1826, HMS Erebus, a ‘bomb’ vessel strong enough to carry heavy mortars, was built of oak and reinforced with iron. In 1839, having demonstrated ...Read Review
The Murderer of Warren Street
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This is the true story of a 19th-century revolutionary, but if you didn’t know that at first glance, you would believe it ...Read Review