Peter Prince
The Penny Heart
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Martine Bailey provides a traditional culinary recipe before each chapter. One caution, though: the ‘most effectual Hystericon for Women’ needs careful preparation, as ...Read Review
Traitor’s Field
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In his second historical fiction Robert Wilton plunges into the English Civil War. On the royalist side is Sir Mortimer Shay, of the ...Read Review
The Secrets of Mary Bowser
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Mary Bowser is born into slavery, freed by her mistress and sent to be educated in Philadelphia. Ten years later, on the brink ...Read Review
The Emperor’s Gold
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This is a promising debut. Robert Wilton has used his knowledge of government to concoct a story of betrayal and deceit set in 1805, ...Read Review
Life Class
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In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by the formidable Professor ...Read Review
Days of Atonement
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Days of Atonement is a follow-up to Critique of Criminal Reason, also by the husband and wife team who write as Michael Gregorio. ...Read Review
Enduring Passions
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Set just before and during the Second World War, Enduring Passions is the tale of two lovers, Tom and Fay, reaching out to ...Read Review
Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary
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Jack is a handsome young tearaway who does well out of at least the first years of the Second World War. Mary is ...Read Review
Last Waltz in Vienna
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Stories of Central European Jewry’s descent into the Nazi nightmare, though always shocking, are not unfamiliar. What makes George Clare’s account ...Read Review
