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Recording Medieval Lives

By Julia Boffey (ed) - By Virginia Davis (ed) - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

This book is a collection of essays based upon papers presented in 2005 at the Harlaxton Symposium, an annual interdisciplinary event on medieval history, ...Read Review

Dracula the Un-Dead

By Dacre Stoker - By Ian Holt - Published 2009

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

First Review Classics do not happen overnight. Time is their standard, and in the case of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, time has proven ...Read Review

The Sins of the Father

By Catherine Hanley - Published 2009Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England in 1217 is in turmoil. Many nobles have rebelled against King John and invited the French prince Louis to take the throne. Because ...Read Review

Mappamundi

By Christopher Harris - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

  In the Italian city of Ancona in 1464, Pope Pius II dies. His mostly loyal English servant Thomas Deerham uses this as an ...Read Review

Writer’s Market UK & Ireland 2010

By Caroline Taggart (ed.) - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

This market directory contains, as you would expect, a large number of listings of publishers, as well as many other categories of information ...Read Review

Ship of Rome

By John Stack - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

This is the first of a series of naval warfare adventures set during the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome. The main characters ...Read Review

The Joys of my Life

By Alys Clare - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the latest and last of the Hawkenlye mysteries, based at the fictitious Hawkenlye Abbey in the Weald of Kent. It begins ...Read Review

The Siege

By Ismail Kadare (trans. David Bellos) - Published 2008

Genres:

EpicLiteraryMilitary

The Ottoman Empire during the 15th century lays siege to a Christian fortress on a plain surrounded by the mountains of Albania. The ...Read Review

The Sun’s Bride

By Gillian Bradshaw - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureNautical

The Eastern Mediterranean, 246 BC. The Rhodian warship Atalanta and her naked crew (that got your attention) come across and destroy a pirate ship. ...Read Review

The Last Legionary

By Paul Elliott - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a lively description of the Roman army in the last years of its stay in Britain, using the experiences of an ...Read Review