Edward James
The Spy and the Snake
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You’ve had cosy crime for over a century, so how about cosy espionage? Spy stories are typically violent and often dark. Not ...Read Review
Another World
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Melvyn Bragg is well known to British readers as a long-serving and greatly admired TV presenter. He is also a prolific author, including ...Read Review
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Catching a Killer
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Cosy crime and cosy ghosts? I’m not sure they go together. A whodunnit solved by supernatural intervention is surely cheating. A murder ...Read Review
The Writer and the Traitor: Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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The writer is Graham Greene and the traitor is Kim Philby, the one famous and the other infamous. Both were spies, working for ...Read Review
This Door of the Seas
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The history of European settlement in the Americas is littered with failed colonies. The Darien colony is Scotland’s only separate colonial venture, ...Read Review
A Fatal Love
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
A Fatal Love is a fictionalised account of the life and death of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged for murder ...Read Review
The Nowhere Sisters
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The Nowhere Sisters is the latest addition to the now extensive body of work – literature, drama, TV, radio and even sculpture – inspired by ...Read Review
The Silent Women
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The Silent Women follows the life of one woman through the second decade of her life, which straddles the Second World War. Her ...Read Review
Nothing to My Name
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How China has changed in less than a lifetime! This family saga, set in three locations in China between 1948 and 1999, follows the lives ...Read Review
A Woman of Spirit
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A Woman of Spirit is a feel-good romance set in a close-knit working-class community in the English Midlands in the early years of ...Read Review
