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Warrior Daughter

By Janet Paisley - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

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

By Kamila Shamsie - Published 2009

Genres:

LiterarySaga

  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

By Charlotte Bingham - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

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

By Chris Kuzneski - Published 2008

Genres:

Thriller

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

By Manil Suri - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

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

By Harry Sidebottom - Published 2008

Genres:

Military

  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

By Johanna Lindsey - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

Genres:

Romance

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

By Tim Severin - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureNautical

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

By C. J. Sansom - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

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