Edward James
The Journey Begins / Drumbeats of War (Tales of the Sea)
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Both these books are described as novels on their covers and in the author’s introductions, but neither are what one would normally ...Read Review
The Silence and the Rage
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The French call this type of book a roman fleuve, likening it to a great river rolling majestically to the sea. I prefer ...Read Review
A Lethal Cocktail (The Woolf & Bell Mysteries)
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This is the second of Byrne’s Woolf and Bell mysteries in which he imagines Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell as ...Read Review
Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day
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Blitz Kids is based on a set of 15 interviews drawn from 80 which the authors carried out among men and women now in their ...Read Review
The White Fortress (Tales of the Lawless Land)
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It is unusual for a brother and sister to co-author a novel, but this is the Morrison siblings’ third book in their Lawless ...Read Review
The Moon’s More Feeble Fire (The Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries)
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This is the second in Allan Gaw’s Jack Cuthbert series. The next two will follow later in the year. Gaw had already ...Read Review
Lion Hearts (Essex Dogs Trilogy)
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When I was a schoolboy we learnt about the Hundred Years’ War as a series of great battles which the English usually won, ...Read Review
Cairo Gambit
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Many of you will know of S. W. Perry as the author of the Jackdaw series of Elizabethan murder/mysteries, but his two ...Read Review
Once the Deed Is Done
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The Nazi Reich ran on slave labour. We now have considerable literature about the concentration camps and the POWs, but relatively little attention ...Read Review
Sisters For Victory (Secret Sirens Aviation Thrillers)
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It is well known that the British and Americans employed both male and female pilots to deliver combat aircraft to their operational bases. ...Read Review
