Gordon O'Sullivan

Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World

By James Evans - Published 2017

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Nonfiction

Why did almost 400,000 people leave English shores for a daunting trip across the Atlantic to North American settlements throughout the 17th century? James ...Read Review

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

By Mike Rapport - Published 2017

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Nonfiction

In Rebel Cities, Mike Rapport ties together three of the great cities of the late 18th-century world, London, Paris, and New York, in ...Read Review

Dr. James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr Michael du Preez - By Jeremy Dronfield - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

This modern biography reclaims a historical figure by telling a fantastic tale of extraordinary deception and medical innovation. James Barry, the first doctor ...Read Review

The Black Friar

By S.G. MacLean - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeThriller

Following in the forbidding footsteps of The Seeker, winner of the CWA 2015 Historical Dagger, The Black Friar sees Damian Seeker, or the Seeker, ...Read Review

Saviour of Rome

By Douglas Jackson - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

The seventh novel in the superb Hero of Rome series, Saviour of Rome, brings Roman hero, Gaius Valerius Verrens, to Spain, the homeland ...Read Review

The Sword of Attilla: Total War: Rome

By David Gibbins - Published 2016

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Military

If the first novel in this Total War: Rome series concerned the birth of the Roman Empire, The Sword of Attila describes its ...Read Review

The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective

By Malcolm Pryce - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

On the eve of the nationalisation of Britain’s railways in 1947, Jack Wenlock, last of the GWR company detectives, monikered the Railway Goslings, ...Read Review

Wars of the Roses: Book 3, Bloodline

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2015Published 2016

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Conn Iggulden’s third book in his superb Wars of the Roses series begins with the striking image of the heads of three ...Read Review

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

By Tom Holland - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

Dynasty is the story of a century of the Julio-Claudians and a hundred years of their cruelty in the pursuit of ever-expanding political ...Read Review

Saxon: The Pope’s Assassin

By Tim Severin - Published 2015

Genres:

Thriller

In this third instalment of Tim Severin’s Saxon series set at the end of the 8th century, The Pope’s Assassin brings ...Read Review