Quercus
The Quarryman’s Wife
Set in the north-east of England in the middle of the industrialising 19th century, this is a rather grim saga…
Greeks Bearing Gifts
Bernie Gunther returns for #13 in Philip Kerr’s crime fiction series. The former Berlin police detective has survived the Nazi…
Kin
This novel’s cover shows an archaeologically-correct-looking longhouse. It’s a tale about Vikings, and it reads like a saga of old!…
Prussian Blue
Editors' choice
This is the twelfth in Philip Kerr’s popular Bernie Gunther series. It is 1956, and Bernie is still in France…
Snow Angels
It is 1890 in Tyneside, where shipbuilding is in full swing. The mighty liners are in competition to make the…
By Blood Divided
By the late 1440s Siward Magoris, varangopoulos of Mistra and trusted officer of Emperor Constantine XI, is used to loss.…
The Wardrobe Mistress
The Wardrobe Mistress is mainly set in and around a small theatre, the Farren Theatre in London, after World War…
Minds of Winter
The enticing jacket synopsis: 1845, John Franklin’s expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage results in the disappearance of all hands…
The Guardian Angel
Set amidst a background of idyllic northern countryside, themes such as love, forgiveness and hatred are being explored in Elizabeth…
Spindrift
Late 1904, Tasmania. Christy announces to her family that she is planning a visit to her Scottish homeland on the…
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