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Hex: Darkland Tales

By Jenni Fagan - Published 2022

Genres:

Time-slip

At 12 noon on 4 December 1591, fifteen-year-old Geillis Duncan was hung as a witch in Edinburgh. She was one of over 70 people, mainly women and ...Read Review

Rizzio: Darkland Tales

By Denise Mina - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

March 9th 1566, Edinburgh. Conspirators want to murder Mary Queen of Scots’ suspected lover during a tennis match, but her estranged husband, Darnley, says ...Read Review

The Pavilion in the Clouds

By Alexander McCall Smith - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1938: not quite nine-year-old Bella Ferguson lives on a remote tea plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with her parents Henry and Virginia and her ...Read Review

Hedy’s War (UK) / The Girl from the Channel Islands (US)

By Jenny Lecoat - Published 2020Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

After fleeing from Vienna to Jersey after the Anschluss, Hedy Bercu finds herself trapped and in danger once more when the Germans invade ...Read Review

Castle Macnab: Richard Hannay Returns

By Robert J. Harris - Published 2018

Genres:

Thriller

This is the second in a series of books by Robert J Harris which pay homage to the classic adventure stories of John ...Read Review

Black Camp 21

By Bill Jones - Published 2018

Genres:

Thriller

In the wake of the D-Day landings, thousands of Germans are taken prisoner, including SS officer Max Hartmann. But while Hartmann broods on ...Read Review