Edward James
The Long Song
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Andrea Levy’s previous books have chronicled the experience of Jamaican immigrants in post-war Britain. In The Long Song she steps back into ...Read Review
Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte
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It is not always good news to have a dictator in the family. It certainly did no good for Stalin’s family, and ...Read Review
The Lieutenant
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Kate Grenville is a bestselling Australian author who has already written about her country’s convict past. In The Lieutenant she goes back ...Read Review
The Saffron Gate
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This book was a delightful surprise. I do not usually review romantic fiction, but this arrived just after I had sent out a ...Read Review
The Historical Novel
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The New Critical Idiom is a series of short introductory guides to literary criticism published by Routledge. There are over 50 titles in the ...Read Review
Hitler’s War: September 1938 — War is declared
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Many people regard alternative history as neither legitimate history nor legitimate historical fiction. Yet the past has meaning only in the light of ...Read Review
The Book of the Alchemist
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Imagine the Arabian Nights transposed to the Spanish Civil War, or rather the narrator transposed to Andalusia in 1938, for like Scheherazade the narrator ...Read Review
Sunnyside
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Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is simultaneously spotted ...Read Review
The Guardians of the Covenant
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If you liked The Da Vinci Code (and millions did despite the ridicule) then you will be delighted with The Guardians of the ...Read Review
Martyr
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Welcome another Tudor detective. This one is John Shakespeare, elder brother of the famous Will (who makes a cameo appearance towards the end ...Read Review
