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The King’s Evil
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The King’s Evil is a reprint of the first of the Christopher Redmayne novels published in 1999, a historical mystery series set in ...Read Review
The Fountain
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Set in the 1920s, this novel is a cross between a family saga and a romance. Comfortably middle class, farmer’s daughter Barbara ...Read Review
The Time Team Guide to the History of Britain
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Now this is a history book. Well written, without being too abstruse or talking down to the reader, it is an easy and ...Read Review
Conflict of Empires
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This novel, third in the Empire series, is set in the early Bronze Age. Akkad, on the banks of the River Tigris, is ...Read Review
Octavia’s War
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Beryl Kingston is a popular and well-established saga writer. Rightly so, she tells a good story and her main characters are appealing. The ...Read Review
The Best of Men
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I really wanted to enjoy this book. The size didn’t put me off, and the cover informed me that in 1642 one man ...Read Review
The Carpenter’s Children
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As a writer/reader I find sagas irritating. I want to delve more deeply into the main character’s personality and motives, but ...Read Review
An Irish Country Doctor
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More faction than fiction, for Doctor Taylor calls heavily on his own experiences as an Ulster country doctor, the characters in this book ...Read Review
The Road to Bosworth Field
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The Wars of the Roses always confused me. So many people, with so many variations of their names, all killing each other. Rarely ...Read Review
Crooked Pieces
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I’ve not found first person point of view, present tense, a good way to tell a story set in the past. I’...Read Review
