Elizabeth Hawksley
Forever My Duke (Unlikely Duchesses, 2)
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In Forever My Duke the author introduces us to her hero, the austere Hadrian Ames, Duke of Clayton. His mother, the Dowager Duchess, ...Read Review
A Single Thread of Moonlight
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1886: a fortune is at stake. Eleven-year-old Iris Scott-Holland believes that her abusive step-mother has engineered her father’s death and now wants Iris ...Read Review
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
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This wonderful book takes the reader on a riveting journey unravelling how, where, and why the earliest written books in Old English, Middle ...Read Review
Hawkwood’s Sword
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1368. Fourteenth-century Europe is shattered by plague, and old principalities are fracturing. Spain, France, England are preparing for war. In Italy, the Pope and ...Read Review
The Railway Girls in Love
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February 1939. War is looming, but Mabel and her best friend Althea are thinking about parties, not war. For Mabel, the agonies of being ...Read Review
The Serpents of Harbledown
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England, 1086. In the author’s fifth Domesday adventure, we follow Ralph Delchard, a Norman soldier, and Gervase Bret, a talented lawyer, who work ...Read Review
The Wolves of Savernake
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In 1086, William the Conqueror set out to record every acre, every item, and who owned what in his new conquest, England. Inevitably, there ...Read Review
The Exiles
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1840. Exiles opens with Mathinna, an aboriginal child, who has been taken in by the Governor of Australia’s wife as a ‘curiosity’; how ...Read Review
Margaret Llewelyn Davies: With Women for a New World
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Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944) was an inspirational campaigner for women’s causes who, as general secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild for 32 ...Read Review
The Last Greek (Commander)
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210 BCE. The Achaean League, an alliance of Greek City States originally founded for mutual protection against encircling Spartans, Macedons and Romans, is fragmenting. ...Read Review