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1815: Regency Britain in the Age of Waterloo

By Stephen Bates - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

1815 was commissioned by the publishers as part of their ‘A Year in History’ series, Stephen Bates having already contributed an earlier book covering 1846. ...Read Review

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse

By Piu Marie Eatwell - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

You couldn’t make it up! No wonder this series of court cases was the sensation of late Victorian and Edwardian England. This ...Read Review

Flood of Fire

By Amitav Ghosh - Published 2015

Genres:

EpicSaga

The adjective which springs most readily to mind on reading this book is ‘vast’ – or perhaps I should spell it V – A – S – ...Read Review

Holy Spy

By Rory Clements - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

This is the seventh book in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. John is the fictional elder brother of Will Shakespeare, who often has a ...Read Review

Jakob’s Colours

By Lindsey Hawdon - Published 2015

Genres:

Literary

If you like historical novels with a fast-moving story told in chronological order, this is not the book for you. At first sight ...Read Review

Plague Land

By S. D. Sykes - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is a mediaeval murder/mystery which begins with a murder and ends with the murderer unmasked, but it is much more than ...Read Review

Warlord’s Gold

By Michael Arnold - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

This is the fifth book in Michael Arnold’s Civil War Chronicles, following the career of Captain Stryker, mercenary soldier in the service ...Read Review

Pasha

By Julian Stockwin - Published 2014

Genres:

MilitaryNautical

Having done their duty at Trafalgar (1805) and subsequently elsewhere, notably Curaçao, Captain Kydd and his frigate are recalled by the British Admiralty. ...Read Review

Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion

By Celia Brayfield - By Duncan Sprott - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook has long been the aspiring authors’ bible. The publisher now has an array of ‘companions’ covering crime fiction, children’...Read Review

Babayaga

By Tony Barlow - Published 2013Published 2014

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Babayaga is in some sense an historical novel, in that it is set in Paris in the late 1950s at the height of ...Read Review