Julia Stoneham
Winter Flowers
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Our central character is Jeanne Caillet, whose husband Toussant sustained near-fatal facial injuries in the First World War and has, since then, been ...Read Review
Mr. Beethoven
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“What?” I asked myself. “Who? When? Where? Boston. USA? Beethoven? A new oratorio?” Relax! Try running those familiar facts on new lines. And ...Read Review
The Searching Dead (The Three Births of Daoloth)
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In 1953, three youngsters are growing up in a suburban London still shadowed by the deprivations of the Second World War, where bombsites and ...Read Review
The Wreck
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By the mid-1800s, the authorities in both England and the rapidly developing young cities in Australia were trying to contain demonstrations and ...Read Review
Valhalla
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Born in 1867, cousin of Queen Victoria, and known within royal circles as “May,” Princess Mary of Teck was one of the crop of ...Read Review
The Mortimer Affair: Joan de Joinville’s Story
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A marriage is arranged between Joan de Joinville, a young and wealthy heiress, and Roger, a member of the powerful Mortimer family. Unusually, ...Read Review
Champion
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It would be a mistake to dismiss this novel on the grounds that it ploughs a familiar furrow. The incorporation of the parallel ...Read Review
Place of Repose: St Cuthbert’s Last Journey
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Place of Repose is Katharine Tiernan’s second novel in a trilogy focused on the period in the history of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria which ...Read Review
Somerville’s War
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All seems idyllic on the shores of the Beaulieu River, where we meet the movers and shakers of the local sailing club busily ...Read Review
Song of the Nightingale
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Marilyn Pemberton’s unconvincing novel takes on the fascinating and complex subject of the practice of the castration of young boys in order ...Read Review