Ann Northfield
The Dying Day
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Bombay around 1950. A famous scholar has gone missing leaving behind fiendish riddles and clues as to the whereabouts of himself and an extremely ...Read Review
The Negotiator: The Masterclass at Saint-Germain
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This slender novel, originally published in 1958 and newly translated, is not a run-of-the-mill plot, characters, and description type of book. It focuses on ...Read Review
A Question of Time (The Snake Eater Chronicles 1)
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In Berlin in 1979, the division between East and West is stark and uncompromising – different ideologies, ways of life, levels of comfort and affluence. ...Read Review
A Prince and a Spy
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1942. The King’s brother, Prince George, Duke of Kent, is killed in a mysterious air crash in the north of Scotland, but was ...Read Review
The Testimony of Alys Twist
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This is very much a novel which demonstrates the experience and perspective of history from below. Royalty, in this case Queen Mary the ...Read Review
The Night of the Flood
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Norfolk, 1952. The war is over, but its shadow is still very much in evidence. The nearby airbase and the mysterious American soldier, Jack, ...Read Review
Dangerous Freedom
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This isn’t a typical novel about slavery. It is a fictional portrayal of a real figure, Dido, the daughter of an African ...Read Review
The Foundling (UK) / The Lost Orphan (US)
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In 1748, Bessie Bright gives birth to an illegitimate daughter, Clara. Due to her poverty-stricken circumstances, she is forced to leave the newborn at ...Read Review
Dreamland
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Heiress Peggy Batternberg is forced by her rich and powerful family to spend the summer on Coney Island. This may not sound like ...Read Review
Hitler’s Secret
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Tom Wilde, American professor resident in Cambridge, UK, occasional secret agent and despiser of all things Nazi, now appears in this, the fourth ...Read Review