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The Art of Killing Well

By Howard Curtis (trans.) - By Marco Malvaldi - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It’s 1895. The famous cookery writer, Pellegrino Artusi, has been invited to spend the weekend with a baron and his family. At the ...Read Review

An Englishman in Madrid

By Eduardo Mendoza - By Nick Caistor (trans.) - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

In the spring of 1936, art historian Anthony Whitelands is sent to Madrid to advise the Duke of La Igualada on the value of ...Read Review

Brief Lives that Live Forever

By Andrei Makine - By Geoffrey Strachan (trans.) - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian looks back on ...Read Review

Hornet’s Sting

By Derek Robinson - Published 1999Published 2013

Genres:

Military

This novel vividly describes the multitude of characters and exploits of Hornet Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and opens with them aiding ...Read Review

War Story

By Derek Robinson - Published ©1987Published 2013

Genres:

Military

War Story is set in 1916 and chronicles Second Lieutenant Oliver Paxton’s first few weeks as a member of the Royal Flying Corps. ...Read Review

Mesmerized

By Alissa Walser - Published 2012

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Alissa Walser’s Mesmerized is set against the backdrop of Vienna in the late 1700s. It follows the story of the German physician ...Read Review

Where I Left My Soul

By Geoffrey Strachan (trans.) - By Jerome Ferrari - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

André Degorce is a man whose life has been both formed and distorted by the history of France in the 20th century. Internment ...Read Review

The Minotaur’s Head

By Danusia Stok (trans.) - By Marek Krajewski - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Fans of the wonderful Polish crime writer Marek Krajewski will be thrilled at this, his latest story in translation, featuring policeman Eberhard Mock. ...Read Review

Hullo Russia, Goodbye England

By Derek Robinson - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

“You’ve got to be demented to want to fly,” Flight Lieutenant Silk of 409 Squadron Royal Air Force tells Air Commodore Bletchley in 1943, ...Read Review

Piece of Cake

By Derek Robinson - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Derek Robinson has been writing wartime ‘ripping yarns’ (his own words) for over 40 years now, and Piece of Cake is a welcome reissue ...Read Review