Alan Fisk

A Journey to Nowhere

By Euan Cameron (trans.) - By Jean-Paul Kaufmann - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

While living in Montreal in 1969, the author had an affair with a blonde called Māra. She told him that her family had ...Read Review

Raphael: A Passionate Life

By Antonio Forcellino - By Lucinda Byatt (trans.) - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

Raphael Santi was the painter who did the most to bring art forward from its mediaeval traditions into the glories of the Renaissance. ...Read Review

The Garden of Evening Mists

By Tan Twan Eng - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

Malaysian Chinese Judge Teoh Yun Ling takes early retirement from the Bench in 1987 without telling anyone why. Now free of her obligations, she ...Read Review

Cold Cruel Winter

By Chris Nickson - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the second novel about the crime-solving exploits of Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds in the 1730s, and follows on from The ...Read Review

The Murder in Whirligig Lane

By Mary Chiappe - By Sam Benady - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In October 1813, Gibraltar is now safe from Napoleon, thanks to Nelson and Wellington, but an older and merciless enemy is now attacking the ...Read Review

Roma Victrix

By Russell Whitfield - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

This is the second novel of a trilogy, following on from Gladiatrix (HNR 49, pp. 9-10). Lysandra, brought up in the Spartan caste of ...Read Review

Liberty’s Exiles

By Maya Jasanoff - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

The American Loyalists were not the snobbish grandees of legend, but a diverse group with different motives for loyalty to the British Empire: ...Read Review

The Double Crown

By Marié Heese - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Following coincidentally upon the recent republication of Pauline Gedge’s Child of the Morning (see HNR, Aug. 2010, p.19), this is another novel about ...Read Review

The Merry Misogynist

By Colin Cotterill - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the latest in the series starring Dr. Siri Paiboun, the reluctant national coroner of Laos in 1978. He is also a part-time ...Read Review

Jungle Soldier

By Brian Moynahan - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

Lieutenant-Colonel Freddy Spencer Chapman was an infantry officer who survived for more than three years in the jungles of occupied Malaya from 1942 to 1945. ...Read Review