Ann Lyon
The Dancing Years
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Writers of huge family sagas seldom stint on their research. Now on its 33rd fat volume, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ Morland Dynasty series is bigger ...Read Review
The Fallen Kings
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January 1918, and volume 32 of the Morland Saga. No conscientious objectors here; all the adult Morlands are doing their bit. Except for Jessie, who ...Read Review
An Ill Wind
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It is always awkward when you start reading a series several books in, and it took me some time to work out what ...Read Review
The Gutenberg Revolution
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At the age of twelve I wrote in a school essay that Johann Gutenberg was the inventor of printing, only to be told ...Read Review
The Fraud
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The time is the 18th century. The Marshalls are a faded gentry family living in Bristol. After both parents and various siblings die ...Read Review
King of Kings
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Harry Sidebottom continues his Warrior of Rome series where part one – Fire in the East – ended. Marcus Clodius Ballista, Dux Rupae, defender of ...Read Review
Cold Blood
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As the Bolsheviks seize power, Charlie Doig, half-Scot, half-Russian, sets off in pursuit of personal vengeance. Acquiring an armoured train and a motley ...Read Review
Leningrad: State of Siege
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The city that was Leningrad for seventy years is St Petersburg again, and trades mainly on its imperial past. But an eternal flame ...Read Review
The Interrogator
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We all know that the British managed to break the German ‘Enigma’ code during World War II, but what of the other side ...Read Review
$panish Fly
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$panish Fly (the dollar sign indicates the main characters’ preoccupation) is set in 1939, in the ‘dustbowl’ of the south-eastern United States, memorably portrayed ...Read Review
