Edward James
The Dressmaker of Paris
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This is not my kind of book, the life story of a seamstress who becomes the millionaire owner of a fashion chain. Yet ...Read Review
Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297-1825
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This is not a maritime history of Britain to 1825, nor is it really a book about shipwrecks. It is a set of eight ...Read Review
Children in Care, 1834-1929: The Lives of Destitute, Orphaned and Deserted Children
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I wish I had had this book when I was lecturing on social policy. Not that it replaces any of the standard textbooks, ...Read Review
The Year of the Gun (The Irregular)
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This is the third in Lyle’s series of espionage novels set in the early years of the British Secret Service, before WWI. ...Read Review
A Shop Girl at Sea
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Not another book about the Titanic? Well, not really. The eponymous shopgirl, Amelia, who works at a department store in Bath, does not ...Read Review
The Electric Hotel
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The Electric Hotel is a story within a story, with the main narrative set within a poignant outer frame. It is 1963, and a ...Read Review
Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain
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Andrea Zuvich is the author of The Stuarts in 100 Facts, which contains far more than 100 facts. She now gives us many more facts ...Read Review
Britain’s Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There (Voices from the Past)
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The impact of mass air raids on civilian targets was the great unknown at the outset of WW2. Pre-war exercises seemed to prove ...Read Review
A Death in Mayfair (The DCI Frank Merlin Series)
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This is the third in Mark Ellis’s DCI Frank Merlin series, set in London in WW2. The action takes place over two ...Read Review
The Sea Gate
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It is rare to find a dual-narrative novel in which both strands of the narrative are equally compelling. Often the present-day strand exists ...Read Review