Edward James
Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
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The One-Upon-A-Time-World is the French Riviera, that tiny strip of land which has had such a disproportionate impact on the cultural history of ...Read Review
The Sixpenny Orphan
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Glenda Young specialises in heart-warming stories set in her native Northumbria. The Sixpenny Orphan is set in the early 20th century in the ...Read Review
The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
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The real-life story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the lesbian duo whose pirate ship briefly terrorised the Caribbean in the 18th century, ...Read Review
The Forgotten Shore
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If you love Newfoundland you will love this book. If you don’t love Newfoundland, that is probably because you have never been ...Read Review
Death of a Lesser God (The Malabar House Series)
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This is the fourth in Khan’s Malabar House series, following the career of the fictional Persis Wadia, the first female police inspector ...Read Review
Wheel of Fortune
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Wheel of Fortune is the first in a series, The Tarnished Crown, set during the Wars of the Roses. If you are expecting ...Read Review
The Housekeepers
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This book might have been more appropriately titled “The Housekeepers’ Revenge.” It is an historical fantasy, in the sense that the servant classes ...Read Review
The House of Doors
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Tan Twan Eng is not a prolific writer, but his books are worth waiting for. The House of Doors is set mainly in ...Read Review
The Wide World
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The French call this type of book a roman fleuve, and it certainly is, a great broad river of a book spreading wide ...Read Review
The Birdcage Library
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If you like Gothic novels, this is a feast. There are no paranormal elements (except a brief hint in the epilogue), but we ...Read Review