Edward James
The Abbess of Whitby
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Like all Oxford history students of my generation, I had to start my course by studying Bede’s History of the English Church ...Read Review
Inscription
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It is said that history teaches us about the present, usually meaning war and politics, which is what history is usually about. We ...Read Review
Dandy Gilver & the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
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The Dandy Gilver novels are a 1930s pastiche, imitating and gently satirising the detective novels of the Golden Age (Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, ...Read Review
The Stuarts in 100 Facts
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The Stuarts in 100 facts! Who needs it? I know thousands of facts about the Stuarts. In fact the ‘100 Facts’ are actually 100 short essays ...Read Review
My Shanghai, 1942-46
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I still find it difficult to believe this book is fiction, even though I’ve checked twice with the Author’s Note. Itoh ...Read Review
Marston Moor
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It may be that I am becoming addicted, but I think Arnold’s Stryker series gets better with each book. This is the 6...Read Review
Lifeline Across the Sea: Mercy Ships in the Second World War
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Clausewitz famously coined the phrase ‘total war’ and defined it as an ideal state. This did not mean, as some suppose, that he ...Read Review
A Want of Kindness
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Joanne Limburg considers that Queen Anne has been neglected by novelists in comparison with other English and British monarchs (Anne was the first ...Read Review
The Looking Glass House
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Vanessa Tait is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the Alice of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. In her childhood ...Read Review
Paternoster
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I am a natural to review this book. The locations are mostly just a short walk from where I live. This is Fleet’...Read Review
