Edward James
When the Sky Fell Apart
The Channel Islands were one of the more peaceful places to spend the Second World War. They were occupied by…
The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy
The Irregular is an amazing mix of actual persons and events, persons and events from the author’s imagination and some…
The Spanish Knight’s Secret
This is a conspiracy novel in the classic formula, with two parallel time streams, ancient and modern. The ancient stream…
Displaced
In his afterword, the author declares that he wanted to describe Germany in the ‘time between the times’ at the…
Titan’s Bowman
This book is a wonderful collection of chapters, all of them exquisitely crafted, most of them small—some very small, like…
The Earth Is Weeping
This is surely the definitive work on the Indian Wars in the American West (i.e. west of the Mississippi) from…
Kicking over the Traces
We start with a love triangle. Beautiful gypsy girl Florence has two suitors: the flamboyant and rather raffish lord of…
The Late Lord: The Life of John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
John Pitt was the son of a great man (William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham) and the brother…
The Last Night
In August 1952 a flash flood swept away the tourist village of Lynmouth in north Devon. All the bodies which…
Modern Crimes: A WPC Lottie Armstrong Mystery
On one level this is a short police/crime novel in which the police crack the case and the criminals get…
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