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Dark Side of the Cut: A History of Crime on Britain’s Canals
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‘Cut’ is a colloquial term for a canal, and The Dark Side of the Cut is a collection of accounts of real-life violent ...Read Review
My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family
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I am reviewing these two books together, as they are very similar both in content and structure. Both authors are British-born children of ...Read Review
By the Edge of the Sword (A Mediaeval Mystery)
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Christmas in 1218. A stranger found frozen to death carries a message for our main characters, Martin and Edwin. An old friend named Joanna ...Read Review
The Impostress: The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson
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“The greatest impostress of the present age” was the mysterious Sarah Wilson who, from her late teens, wandered alone across 18th-century England duping ...Read Review
The Cardinal’s Court
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During the Tudor era where so many novels take place, it can be difficult to find a new perspective on an old setting, ...Read Review
Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort
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Red Roses is the story of the women of England’s Lancastrian Dynasty, from 1345 to 1509. It traces the changing fortunes of the descendants ...Read Review
Lifeline Across the Sea: Mercy Ships in the Second World War
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Clausewitz famously coined the phrase ‘total war’ and defined it as an ideal state. This did not mean, as some suppose, that he ...Read Review
The Regency Detective
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The first in a proposed new series set in Bath in 1803, this is written both alongside the development of a TV series and ...Read Review
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England’s Most Infamous Family
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In 1464, Edward IV announced he had wed Elizabeth Woodville, an event that, for better or worse, would impact English history. The Woodvilles, often ...Read Review
Royal Marriage Secrets
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John Ashdown-Hill takes on all controversial British royal marriages in this work, well organized chronologically with particular focus on key figures and exceptional ...Read Review
