Edward James
1815: Regency Britain in the Age of Waterloo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
