Edward James
Hunter’s Rage
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1643: This is year three of the English Civil War, and the third book in Michael Arnold’s ‘Stryker’ series. It is very similar ...Read Review
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
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What do you know about the Taiping Rebellion, or the Taiping Civil War as Stephen Platt prefers to call it? If the answer ...Read Review
Abdication
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Abdication takes its title from the Abdication Crisis of 1936, but it could as easily have been entitled 1936. Starting in January, it goes through ...Read Review
Little People
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This is a Gothic novel set in Australia. Unbelievable! –Australia must be the least Gothic country on earth, but here it is. The ...Read Review
The House of Rumour
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At first sight this is a conspiracy thriller, although more ‘literary’ than most, as one would expect from Sceptre. It has the usual ...Read Review
A Parachute in the Lime Tree
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At first sight this is a standard POW romance – German prisoner/local girl. This time, however, there are significant differences. Firstly the story ...Read Review
The Scarlet Ribbon
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If you are into obstetrics this is the book for you. It begins with a caesarean section (performed with a penknife) and continues ...Read Review
Pure
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Pure is a novel about the clearance of the cemetery at Les Innocents in Paris in 1785 and the transportation of the human remains ...Read Review
The Columbus Affair
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This is a conspiracy thriller, a Quest that keeps closely to the rules of the genre, rules which Steve Berry has followed in ...Read Review
The Year After | The Last Summer
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Occasionally the accidents of publishing bring out two books in the same season which neatly complement each other. The Last Summer and The ...Read Review
