Charlotte Wightwick
Wolf at the Door (Bradecote & Catchpoll, 9)
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All Hallows’ Eve, 1144. A man is found savagely mauled in his cottage in the King’s Forest near Worcester. The man’s son ...Read Review
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
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Marc Morris’s new book is ambitious in scope, sweeping through six centuries of Anglo-Saxon history. It starts by talking about two of ...Read Review
Words to Shape My Name
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Based on real-life events, this book starts when an elderly woman, Harriet Small, is given a memoir written nearly sixty years earlier by ...Read Review
Mrs England
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It’s 1904, and Ruby May, a recently graduated nanny, moves to a new post in Yorkshire. All seems well at first: Mr and ...Read Review
Circus of Wonders
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Set in the 1860s, when the craze for circuses, and particularly “human wonders”, was booming, Macneal’s second novel explores this glamorous, tawdry ...Read Review
The Smallest Man
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Nat Davy is ten when he discovers that, not only is he smaller than the other boys in his village, but that he ...Read Review
The Canterbury Murders
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It is Easter, 1177, and the King’s Clerk Aelred Barling and his assistant Hugo Stanton are on pilgrimage, making their way to the ...Read Review
River of Sins
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1144, Worcester. A woman is found brutally murdered on an island in the middle of a river, a few miles from town. Hawkswood’s ...Read Review
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors (England’s Medieval Queens)
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Weir’s latest non-fiction offering covers the lives of five English medieval queens, from the best-known Eleanor of Aquitaine, through to another Eleanor, ...Read Review
V2
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Set in 1944, with the war in Europe going badly for Hitler, this new historical thriller by Robert Harris follows two main characters. Rudi ...Read Review