Robert Hale
Women of Straw
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Set in Luton, a market town just north of London, Women of Straw centres on the straw hat industry of the late 1860s. ...Read Review
Kicking over the Traces
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We start with a love triangle. Beautiful gypsy girl Florence has two suitors: the flamboyant and rather raffish lord of the manor, Garrett, ...Read Review
Duty and Deception
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In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst set up the Women’s Suffrage Movement to campaign for votes for women, and their stories are well known, but ...Read Review
Moorend Farm
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Gwen Kirkwood’s latest novel continues the story of William and Emma begun in Moorland Mist, and sees the young couple settling and ...Read Review
Love and Friendship
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Love and Friendship was written when Jane Austen was 14 and foreshadows the conflict between moral obligation and individual desire which permeates many of ...Read Review
Deep Waters
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As always with Robert Hale books, this is splendidly produced with a well-chosen typeface and a pleasure to (be)hold. Setting her novel ...Read Review
Imperfect Pretence
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Imperfect Pretence is Ann Barker’s eighteenth novel, and she obviously knows the period well, although I was dubious about two women dining ...Read Review
Terror by Gaslight
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Victorian London. A serial killer is stalking Hampstead Heath, killing an apparently random victim every month with a single knife thrust, sowing terror ...Read Review
Sherlock Holmes and the Four Corners of Hell
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
One of the most beloved and well-known literary figures of all time is once again back to solve more mysterious crimes with his ...Read Review
Paying Davy Jones
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This is one of the best family stories I have read this year. Set in the Shetland Isles in the 1970s when the ...Read Review
