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
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
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
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
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
