Edward James
Relic
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Relic is unashamedly indebted to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, which it lists in its bibliography, along with The Holy Blood and ...Read Review
Silk Road
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The Knights Templar and the Mongol Empire have both been popular topics among historical novelists in recent years; this novel has them both ...Read Review
Catching the Tide
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This is certainly ‘a good read’ at almost 600 pages. I found it quite a challenge, as there is no strong narrative line to ...Read Review
Staying on Past the Terminus
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One of the reviewers for this journal commented on Robert Douglas’s previous novel, Whose Turn for the Stairs, that it was ‘the ...Read Review
Devil’s Charge
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When I was at school our history books gave the impression that the English Civil War was a rather gentlemanly affair between romantic ...Read Review
The Paper Garden
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This is the story of an 18th century English lady who in old age takes up composing pictures of flowers from coloured paper. ...Read Review
A Lily of the Field
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This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no ordinary murder/...Read Review
The House of Hope
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At the end of the Second World War there were over a million German soldiers and airmen in Britain, more than served outside ...Read Review
The Illusion of Murder
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This is the second book in the adventures of Nellie Bly, ‘America’s first female investigative reporter’. The first book, The Alchemy of ...Read Review
The Pindar Diamond
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This is a beautiful book set in a beautiful city, Venice at the beginning of the 17th century. It is the sequel to ...Read Review