Jonathan Cape
Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I knew well the challenges facing her as a woman in a man’s world, yet her genius lay…
The Best of Men
I really wanted to enjoy this book. The size didn’t put me off, and the cover informed me that in…
Hodd
One of Britain’s most critically acclaimed authors, Adam Thorpe, has written another brilliant and original novel. The device is not…
Lark and Termite
Set in 1950s Virginia, Lark and Termite is a suspenseful novel focusing on a cast of characters affected by love,…
American Adulterer
This novel is unputdownable. Much of what makes it compulsive reading, however, is its voyeuristic quality. Although written in prose…
Cold Blood
As the Bolsheviks seize power, Charlie Doig, half-Scot, half-Russian, sets off in pursuit of personal vengeance. Acquiring an armoured train…
The Quickening Maze
England, around 1840, and John Clare, the middle-aged poet of rural England, is incarcerated with his delusions and alter egos…
Lark & Termite
It’s July 1950, and as Corporal Robert Leavitt commands a platoon in the Korean countryside, his thoughts wander to…
The Rescue Man
This is first novel of Anthony Quinn, film critic of The Independent, and a most impressive debut it is. Liverpool…
Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant
I first came across Archibald, Lord Wavell (1883-1950), through his popular poetry anthology Other Men’s Flowers. I knew little of…
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