Penguin
The Devil’s Workshop
The third in the Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series finds Inspector Walter Day investigating an implausible prison escape: a train…
The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
Catherine Bailey went to Belvoir Castle on the Rutland family estate to “research a book about this small corner of…
Fallen Beauty
This novel, set in the 1930s in upstate New York, tells the story of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay,…
In Falling Snow
Readers are spoiled for choice with new historical novels set during WWI. Most offer similar themes: navigating the era’s shifting…
Great Britain’s Great War
With the anniversary of the beginning of the First World War rapidly approaching it is no surprise that further publications…
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
Hundred Days tells the story of the last four months of combat on the western front. It concentrates on the…
Dusk
Set against the backdrop of WW1 and, more specifically, shortly before and during the Battle of the Somme, this first…
Anarchy
Harold of Hereford was raised by his mother Estrith, a respected nun and churchwright, to take pride in his English…
The Glass Ocean
The Glass Ocean is a story told in hindsight by orphaned Carlotta Dell’orro, who tells of her birth through her…
The Colour of Milk
“the story begins in the year of eighteen hundred and thirty. the years are of the lord.” And so begins…
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