Viking
Red Rover
The novel opens in 1927 with two of the main characters, Neil and Aidan Tierney (nine and thirteen, respectively), riding…
Reading Judas, The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of History
One of the big questions about the death of Jesus, of abiding fascination to theologians, historians and the just plain…
Consequences of Sin: An Edwardian Mystery
Ursula Marlow, Oxford graduate, heiress and budding suffragette, receives a telephone call late one night from her friend Winifred ”Freddie”…
Consequences
If you like your multi-generational family sagas breezy and easy to read, and with if not a happy ending, then…
The Last Girls of Pompeii
The Last Girls of Pompeii is set, as the title implies, in 79 AD, during the final days of the…
The Silver Cup
Anna lives in a small village between Speyer and Worms along the Rhine, and the time is 1095-96. Anna’s father…
Donne: The Reformed Soul
John Donne needs no introduction, yet this book reveals his life in such detail that I felt I had discovered…
The Nature of Monsters
This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos…
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
The book’s title undervalues the scope of the book, for Adam Sisman has written more than an intricate description of…
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Editors' choice
Paris, 1880. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is thirty-nine, his enchantment with the revolutionary Impressionist style is fading, and the movement threatens to…
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