Edward James
A Home in the Country
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This claims to be a true story and doubtless it is, but to classify it as non-fiction would be a disservice to the ...Read Review
The Ghosts of Mayfield Park
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The Ghosts of Mayfield Park is a Victorian murder/mystery narrated in part by one of the victims, who though poisoned escapes in ...Read Review
When Britain Burned the White House
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There has been such a flurry of books, articles, radio and TV programmes and festival events about the War of 1812 that it surely ...Read Review
No Skylarks Sing
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This is the sequel to Catherine of Deepdale, which described Catherine’s arrival in the Shetland Islands and the early years of her ...Read Review
Crowning Deception
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In 1940, King Carol of Romania fled his country in the face of a Nazi-inspired coup, leaving behind the crown jewels. They were never ...Read Review
The Princess Alice Disaster
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The sinking of the pleasure steamer Princess Alice in the Thames in September 1878 was the worst inland water accident in British history. Over 650 ...Read Review
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing
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J. M. Coetzee is a significant author (two Booker prizes and a Nobel) but even so the extent of the Coetzee ‘industry’ (writings ...Read Review
Assassin’s Reign
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Michael Arnold’s Stryker series gets better and better as it goes on. This is the third in the series, set in 1643. I ...Read Review
Motherland
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“Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She ...Read Review
The King’s Deception
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It is 2010; the Government of Scotland wants to return a Pan-Am 103 bomber to Qadhafi’s Libya, and the Government of Britain wants to ...Read Review
