Weidenfeld & Nicolson
The Abyssinian Proof
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1453. The eve of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isaak Metochites prepares to flee the city with his family, taking ...Read Review
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
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I’ve always been fascinated by the shadowy Jane Boleyn, a court intriguer who went so far as to provide the evidence that ...Read Review
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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As the first biographer to gain access to Arthur Conan Doyle’s newly released personal archive, Andrew Lycett draws a captivating picture of ...Read Review
The Book of Loss
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This novel is presented in diary format, making it reminiscent of historical works such as Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book. Set during the ...Read Review
Farewell Britannia
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In this collection of linked short stories, Simon Young revisits the territory he occupied so beguilingly in A.D. 500, not only literally revisiting ...Read Review
The Rose of Sebastopol
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Mariella Lingwood is a typical Victorian young lady. She is quiet, dutiful, unadventurous, shy and modest. She helps her mother in her charitable ...Read Review
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
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The Lost Diary of Don Juan is a fresh, new imagining of a legendary character. Don Juan is made for historical fiction, especially ...Read Review
Special Assignments
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In this latest addition to the Erast Fandorin series, Akunin offers his international fans a double dose of intriguing and absolutely unputdownable novellas ...Read Review
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister
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Thomas Cromwell and his first master Cardinal Wolsey had much in common: both were commoners whose loyalty lay entirely with the Tudor crown ...Read Review
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
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The ‘tagline’ of this work is ‘the struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIII’. This is important because ...Read Review
