Edward James
A Case of Mice and Murder (The Trials of Gabriel Ward)
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This is a beautifully crafted detective story in the classic format, but with a distinctive touch. As with all good detective novels, the ...Read Review
The Cameraman
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It is 1934, and Julius is newly discharged from a mental hospital in Wales. He is joining his family on a motoring trip across ...Read Review
Wolves of Winter
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The Hundred Years’ War garnered the kings of England a crop of astonishing victories, but they never seemed decisive, and the war dragged ...Read Review
The Colonel and the Eunuch
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Mai Jia is China’s best-selling author, whose books have sold over 10 million copies. So what is it that the Chinese read, and ...Read Review
My Lady’s Secrets
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This is a Regency novel in that it is set in 1812, during the Regency, and it is populated by the sort of people ...Read Review
A Girls’ Guide to Winning the War
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As the title suggests, this is not a wholly serious book, but it is far from being a satire. It is a feel-good ...Read Review
The Witching Hour (Dandy Gilliver Mystery)
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The Golden Age of British detective fiction lives on in an eternal 1930s. This is the 16th in Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver ...Read Review
The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch
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Many people have heard of Charles II’s mistress, Nell Gwynn, and perhaps even of others of his mistresses, but who knows anything ...Read Review
The Golden Hour
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Victorian England had a problem with a new technology which created such an upsurge of pornography that it became accessible even to schoolboys. ...Read Review
On the Road to Freedom: and From Captivity
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In 1918 a band of Czech and Slovak ex-POWs took over the Trans-Siberian railway in the course of the Russian Civil War; in effect ...Read Review
