Penguin (UK)

The Falcon of Sparta

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2018

Genres:

Military

Artaxerxes is the Persian king’s oldest son and heir. Cyrus is Artaxerxes’ younger brother, and the main character of the book, at ...Read Review

The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House

By Stephanie Lam - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Rosie Churchill, aged eighteen in 1965, has run away from home, hiding an ugly secret from her mother. She secures a flat at the ...Read Review

The Darkness and the Thunder

By Stewart Binns - Published 2015

Genres:

Military

As the year 1915 begins, a stalemate occurs with the allies, led by France and Great Britain on the western front, while Russia in ...Read Review

Lionheart

By Stewart Binns - Published 2013

Genres:

Military

Beginning in 1176, this military historical novel tells the story of Duke Richard of Aquitaine – known to history as Richard I or Richard the ...Read Review

Tyringham Park

By Rosemary McLoughlin - Published 2013Published 2014

Genres:

Even before her baby sister Victoria disappeared from Tyringham Park in 1917, young Charlotte’s life was not pleasant. Unloved by her overbearing mother, ...Read Review

The Girl You Left Behind

By Jojo Moyes - Published 2013

Genres:

RomanceSaga

France, 1916. The Kommandant of the German soldiers who occupy the village of St. Péronne is a cultured man, but he’s capable ...Read Review

Love in the Time of Cholera

By Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Edith Grossman) - Published 2004 (UK)Published 2007 (US)

Genres:

Literary

Florentino Ariza fell in love with Fermina Daza the first time he saw her when he delivered a telegram to her father. She ...Read Review

All For Love

By Dan Jacobson - Published 2006

Genres:

Romance

In All for Love, Dan Jacobson brings to light a tempestuous turn-of-the-century affair amid the petty royals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Princess Louise ...Read Review

Wordsworth, A Life

By Juliet Barker - Published 2001 (UK)Published 2005 (US)

Genres:

Nonfiction

The author, well known for her acclaimed work The Brontës, has skillfully interwoven a wealth of published and unpublished material to create ...Read Review