Weidenfeld & Nicolson
The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery
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1896: The Romanov imperial family and heads of state from around the world gather in Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. Among ...Read Review
Ridley Road
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In 1962, after the death of her father, Vivien Epstein, a hairdresser, moves from her home in Manchester to London to start a new ...Read Review
The Siege
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In 1811 Spain, in the Peninsular War, the city of Cádiz is under siege, with French artillery shelling it from across the bay. ...Read Review
Dorothea’s War: The Diary of a First World War Nurse
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To summarise the contents of this outstanding diary of a First World War nurse would be a great injustice. Vera Brittain’s Great ...Read Review
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed
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In 1833, in the village of Plumstead, elderly George Bodle, along with all those in his household, falls ill immediately after breakfast. While others ...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
Churchill and Empire
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This book traces the development of Sir Winston Churchill’s attitudes to the British Empire, starting with how those attitudes were formed in ...Read Review
Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors
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If there is only one thing known about the Wars of the Roses it’s that they’re very complicated! The period of ...Read Review
Disraeli or The Two Lives
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Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli is currently undergoing something of a mini-revival. But was Disraeli, the so called father of “One Nation Toryism”, all ...Read Review
Send Me Safely Back Again
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This is the third novel in Adrian Goldsworthy’s Napoleonic series focusing on the men of the British 106th Foot. Send Me Safely ...Read Review
