Edward James
The Pershore Poisoners
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This is the sixth in Kerry Tombs’ Inspector Ravenscroft series. Inspector Ravenscroft is an ex-London detective who currently lives and works in the ...Read Review
A Higher Call
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Just before Christmas 1943 a badly damaged American bomber was limping home from a raid on Bremen when it was intercepted by a German ...Read Review
The Edge of the World
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We remember the last decades of Tsarist Russia as a time of backwardness and confusion, but this was the regime which built the ...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
A Love Like Blood
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Marcus Sedgwick has already published 12 YA novels, and this is his first novel for adults. His YA experience shows in his precise, simple ...Read Review
The Devil in the Marshalsea
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Antonia Hodgson is no stranger to the literary world, being currently Editor-in-Chief at Little Brown UK. She has proved that she can spot ...Read Review
Secrets of the Sea House
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A young couple moves into an old house and uncovers a dreadful secret. This sounds like the beginning of a Victorian melodrama, and ...Read Review
Operation Kingfisher
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Operation Kingfisher was an escape line organised by the French Resistance in WW2 to smuggle downed Allied airmen to Spain via the French ...Read Review
The Burial
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This is a strange book, not least because the narrator is a newborn baby who dies in the first chapter. This is Magical ...Read Review
