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Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed Tudor England
This is the extraordinary tale of a voyage of discovery every bit as epoch-making as those of Spain and Portugal.…
Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story
When he is a boy, William Bellman somehow manages to kill a rook stone dead with a single catapult shot.…
Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story
The subtitle sets this up to be a discomforting read, and indeed, it is, but it is also completely engrossing.…
Appetite
Think of synaesthesia: a young boy realises that, for him, tastes or scents trigger other senses and associations. Then set…
City of Devils
Set in wintry 1887 Turin, this blockbuster follows James Murray, a young Scottish doctor in training with eminent, medico-crime expert,…
The Ill-Made Knight
Christian Cameron is a very successful historical novelist who has written a whole series of novels set in ancient Greece.…
Under the Jewelled Sky
Under the Jewelled Sky is the story of Sophie Schofield and the men in her life. Not having had the…
The Child Thief
Editors' choice
In the winter of 1930, the inhabitants of Vyriv, a tiny village in the western Ukraine, wait uneasily for the…
A Half Forgotten Song
Zach Gilchrist’s wife has divorced him and is taking their young child to live in America. His art gallery in…
Candlemoth
I approached Candlemoth with some apprehension. Its framing device is the story of a man on Death Row in 1982,…
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