Ann Lyon
Envoy of the Black Pine
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‘This is a very strange book,’ I was told after I had agreed to review it. It moves between the Cotswolds and the ...Read Review
Submariner
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Think of all those submarine films from the 1940s and 1950s that turn up on the afternoon TV schedules. Submariner is like these, ...Read Review
Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
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This is the latest paperback edition of a book originally published in 1992, and which neatly combines both guidebook and military history. Professor Holmes ...Read Review
The Lady of the Manor
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Chris Marr is described as a voracious reader of the Edwardian period with a passion for crime fiction, and his first book is, ...Read Review
The Aquila Project
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London, June 1894. The Prince of Wales arrives to open Tower Bridge; the police discover a bomb in one of its boiler rooms and ...Read Review
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
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I would not call myself a Heyer fan as such, but a book on Regency life made an enjoyable prospect for a review. ...Read Review
The Scent of Jasmine
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Melody Craven is a poor relation, orphaned by a cholera epidemic in India and given refuge by her Uncle Frederick and Aunt Laura, ...Read Review
Blood Rock
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Summer 1565. The Knights of St John are under siege on the small island of Malta, facing the full might of the Ottoman Empire. ...Read Review
Last Stand at Majuba Hill
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Inside John Wilcox is there a factual historian struggling to get out? In their fourth outing, Simon Fonthill and 352 Jenkins take part in ...Read Review
Rose Alley
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Audrey Howard’s new book is classic Victorian melodrama. From the foetid Liverpool slum of the title, Queenie Logan and her improbably named ...Read Review
