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Warrior Daughter
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In the Isle we now know as Skye, Kerrigan, Iron Age Queen of Warriors, has met a premature death. Living in a powerful ...Read Review
Burnt Shadows
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Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is to marry walk into infinity ...Read Review
The Land Of Summer
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1880s Massachusetts: ‘Poor’ Emmaline Nesbitt, being the eldest of four sisters, had always understood from her mother that she must marry. At the ...Read Review
The Lost Throne
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Built high on the natural rock of Thessaly in Greece are a series of six monasteries, once there were more. The monks who ...Read Review
The Age of Shiva
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On the eve of 25 January 1955, India is to celebrate its fifth anniversary as a republic. The subcontinent is beginning to readjust after the ...Read Review
Warrior of Rome, Part One: Fire in the East
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Fire in the East is part one of Dr Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series and his first novel. He is ...Read Review
The Devil Who Tamed Her
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Ophelia Reid was the most beautiful and desirable debutante of her generation, and she was also the most hated woman in England. Having ...Read Review
Buccaneer
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Tim Severin is the author of those splendid non-fiction accounts of classical voyages which have entertained us over the years. His first steps ...Read Review
Revelation
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Palm Sunday, 1543: Henry VIII, having only recently beheaded his fifth wife, is wooing a very reluctant Catherine Parr. Sergeant Matthew Shardlake, now a ...Read Review
Counting the Stars
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Ancient Rome in the late Republic was an unsettled place: violence, corruption and murder were a tangible part of the brutal world empire ...Read Review