Julia Stoneham
The Walled Garden
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During WW1, writers including Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen drew renewed public attention to the psychological damage caused by warfare. In The Walled ...Read Review
Cruel September
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Cruel September is set in the scholastic world of Los Angeles at the time of the Vietnamese War and the teachers’ strike of 1970. ...Read Review
The Ordeal of Miss Lucy Jones
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So this is a true story, verified by contemporary cuttings, which are reproduced from the local press and which, albeit difficult to decipher, ...Read Review
An Idle Woman
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Having established the central character, Frances Dickinson, known also as Fanny, as a lively, well-educated young heiress, we are told of her courtship ...Read Review
Rosalind (UK) / The English Chemist (US)
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Rosalind takes up the now familiar cudgels and, using the mass of proven evidence available to her, reprises Rosalind Franklin’s whole sad ...Read Review
Begin the Beguine
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Readers approaching this book may be expecting little more than a comprehensive account of the histories of the musical icons of America’s ...Read Review
Solstice
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Although presented as a standalone novel, Helen Steadman’s Solstice brings with it strong elements of the two volumes which preceded it in ...Read Review
Shape of Her
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We begin with Katya, the youngest member of a group of characters who, in common with many affluent Jewish families, were robbed by ...Read Review
The Red Citadel (The Isaac Alvarez Mysteries, 3)
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In The Red Citadel, third in the author’s Isaac Alvarez Mysteries, Michael Lynes continues the story of Isaac Alvarez and his family, ...Read Review
Scarlet Town (Laurence Jago)
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Research can be a tricky area for writers of historical fiction. Some authors use it to fill out their pages, thickening their text ...Read Review