Jan Middleton
A Poisoner’s Tale
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Cathryn Kemp states that her novel ‘is dedicated to every woman who knows how it feels when his key turns in the lock’. ...Read Review
Miss Austen Investigates
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Jane Austen’s world, with its intelligent heroines, romance and issues of propriety, is blended deliciously with murder mystery motifs, resulting in an ...Read Review
Battle Lord (The Wulfbury Chronicles, 2)
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Nearly a thousand years ago, England endured its last invasion. After the chaos of Senlac Ridge, Cerdic, who is a young scion of ...Read Review
The Winter List
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This sixth in the popular Damian Seeker series will attract readers fond of the historical crime genre. We are in York in the ...Read Review
Clytemnestra
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“Survival, strength and courage are your duties,” the King of Sparta tells the girls (including his daughters) training to wrestle just like their ...Read Review
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
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For centuries John of Gaunt has remained an enigmatic figure, our ‘take’ on him coloured by Shakespeare or Anya Seton. Helen Carr has ...Read Review
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
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How did fine amour, that social code of romantic behaviour born in 11th-century France, come to define the lives and fate of iconic ...Read Review
The Ravens of Blackwater (Domesday)
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Marston is a prolific author, and confident in his art. Here’s a brisk murder-mystery set in the aftermath of the Conquest, following ...Read Review
The Revolt
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Listen to the inner voices of Richard the Lionheart and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, resounding down the centuries, courtesy of the powerful ...Read Review
Penhaligon’s Pride
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Who doesn’t love a good family saga? Set in Edwardian Cornwall, here’s a novel with a tried and tested recipe: dark ...Read Review