Claire Cowling
Just One More Day
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The latest of Jessica Blair’s historical romance novels is a juxtaposition of the tense and the tender, the pain and the joys ...Read Review
A Study in Murder
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Reimagining the Holmes-Watson partnership in the early decades of the 20th century is made easy, and comes alive in this latest “Dr Watson” ...Read Review
When Daddy Came Home
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The Second World War brought with it long separation of lovers, spouses and families. The armed services survived by concentrating on discipline, camaraderie ...Read Review
Before the Fall
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Before the Fall is the debut novel by Juliet West, inspired by real events in London during the First World War. It was ...Read Review
Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain Since 1880
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This is a book dealing with wide-ranging and controversial themes within the scope of sex and gender issues in Britain: from sex within ...Read Review
The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy, and the Curse of Byron
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In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron’s refuge from notoriety in Geneva, together with a young doctor, John Polidori, coincided with that of ...Read Review
The Bridges of Constantine
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This book is the first of a best-selling, award-winning trilogy, originally published in Arabic in 1993 and in English in 1999. This re-release of the ...Read Review
Reading Historical Fiction: the Revenant and Remembered Past
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This scholarly collection of essays investigates historical fiction written from the 18th century to that produced in contemporary times. The book includes work ...Read Review
The Gilded Edge
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When white, upper-class Johnny Beresford is found dead in Belgravia and a black nurse-come-prostitute Marcy Jones is bludgeoned to death in Notting Hill ...Read Review
The Second-Last Woman in England
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Harriet Wallis, middle-class wife and mother in a respectable neighbourhood, has been accused of shooting her husband. But why would she want to ...Read Review