Orion
The Double Shadow
The cover of this book did not immediately stand out for me; it was not one I would immediately take…
Citadel
Kate Mosse completes her trilogy of novels set in and around Carcassonne with Citadel, a story that takes place largely…
All Change for Nurse Millie
This sequel to Call Nurse Millie (HNR 64) opens in July 1945 as the National Health Service is introduced throughout…
The Case of the Pistol-Packing Widows
Nevada Territory, U.S.A., 1862. In this, the third P. K. Pinkerton mystery, our hero, age 12, is hired by a…
The Goddess and the Thief
Only the other week, I came across the term “Oriental Gothic”. And that is exactly how I would describe Essie…
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
In the sixth volume of Bradley’s mystery series featuring Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old chemistry genius in 1951 England, we…
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…
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