John Murray
April in Paris
Editors' choice
Don’t be fooled by this book’s unfortunate UK cover. This is not another romantic wartime saga, but a powerful study…
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Modern-day Turin. A fire breaks out inside the Cathedral but is quickly extinguished before it can do much damage –…
The Death of Glory
1915 was a tough year for the British in France. The battles fought by the British army were either disasters…
The Meaning of Night: A Confession
Michael Cox’s debut novel is a darkly atmospheric and very gothic tale of wrath, nemesis, and self-destruction: a 600-…
Children of War
During the Munich Crisis, my father, aged ten, joined his friends in digging trenches. On 3 September, 1939, he…
Louis XVIII
In a new edition of this classic study, Mansel writes that Louis XVIII was ‘naturally European’, and during his twenty-three…
Pardonable Lies
In 1930, still haunted by his son’s death in the Great War, Cecil Lawton, Q.C., hires Maisie Dobbs, ostensibly to…
Liars and Saints
The novel covers four generations of the Santerre family. Beginning at the close of World War II, the story continues…
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BCE to a well-connected provincial family. Throughout his early years, he immersed himself…
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