Thomas Dunne
An Appetite for Violets
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In 1772 Biddy, under-cook at a Cheshire estate, is forced to accompany Lady Carinna, her new young mistress, to Italy while Carinna’s elderly ...Read Review
Spartans at the Gates: A Novel (Nikias of Plataea)
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The Peloponnesian War has begun, and the city of Plataea is besieged by an encampment of Spartans. Athens, Plataea’s ally and Sparta’...Read Review
A Paris Apartment
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Furniture specialist April Vogt is glad to be called to Paris to appraise the contents of a long-shuttered apartment, at the very least ...Read Review
The Queen’s Dwarf
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It is 1629, three years into the reign of Charles Stuart and Henrietta-Maria, his French Catholic queen. George Villiers, Lord Buckingham, who is closest ...Read Review
The Spanish Armada
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Naval battles in the early modern period, as Hutchinson writes, carried their own brand of particular terror: the cannonades, the terrible wounds caused ...Read Review
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Cain might object to the theft of credit for his invention, but otherwise the title of this work sums things up rather nicely. ...Read Review
Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
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Biographies abound for the colorful personalities of the Late Roman Republic: Caesar and Cleopatra, Pompey and Cicero. But one of the most influential ...Read Review
Reefs and Shoals
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I have sailed with Alan Lewrie, R.N., on sixteen voyages before Reefs and Shoals and was as eager to embark for the ...Read Review
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry Vlll
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This new biography concentrates on Henry VIII’s life up until the triumphant coronation of the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533. The first chapters ...Read Review
With Fire and Sword
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General Sir William Howe commanded a British assault force against a ragtag collection of ill-trained rebels at the Battle of Bunker Hill on ...Read Review
