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The King’s War
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After the success of The King’s Speech, both as a book and a film, Mark Logue (grandson of the speech therapist Lionel ...Read Review
Blackberry and Wild Rose
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This debut novel by Sonia Velton is set in Spitalfields, London, in the late 18th century when the Huguenots had brought the silk ...Read Review
The Coal Miner’s Wife (The Deerness Series)
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This is the second in the Deerness series, set in the industrial north-east of England. It is the turn of the century in ...Read Review
Destroying Angel: The Seeker 3
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In this, the third Seeker mystery, Damien Seeker is sent to Yorkshire, his native county, to prepare for the rule of the newly ...Read Review
A World on Fire
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Did you, as a child, watch scary TV from behind the sofa? This is the lasting reaction I had to this book. It’...Read Review
The Quarryman’s Wife
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Set in the north-east of England in the middle of the industrialising 19th century, this is a rather grim saga of personal hardship, ...Read Review
Kin
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This novel’s cover shows an archaeologically-correct-looking longhouse. It’s a tale about Vikings, and it reads like a saga of old! The ...Read Review
Greeks Bearing Gifts
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Bernie Gunther returns for #13 in Philip Kerr’s crime fiction series. The former Berlin police detective has survived the Nazi years, but at ...Read Review
Snow Angels
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It is 1890 in Tyneside, where shipbuilding is in full swing. The mighty liners are in competition to make the transatlantic crossing in luxury, ...Read Review
Prussian Blue
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This is the twelfth in Philip Kerr’s popular Bernie Gunther series. It is 1956, and Bernie is still in France working as a ...Read Review