Jan Middleton
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
Perception
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Let’s face it: Elizabeth Bennet had all the luck. Not so poor, plain Mary, left languishing in Longbourn by Jane Austen, destined ...Read Review
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
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If streets could talk… Cruickshank focuses like a laser beam upon the buildings of one of London’s best-known neighbourhoods, chronicled in an ...Read Review
The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare
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Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! We’re in the Territory, before it became New Mexico, in a frontier mining town – along ...Read Review
Kingmaker: Divided Souls
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Third in a series of four, here is a product of vivid imagination and astute historical knowledge, tempered by fine writing skills. Toby ...Read Review
The Fast Men
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Everything has a history. We know about athletics in ancient Greece, but how many are privy to the secrets of race-running in Victorian ...Read Review
Sisters on Bread Street
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Frances Brody takes great care to present a range of telling issues surrounding life in northern England during the Great War, including urban ...Read Review
