Ruth Downie
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
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Histories of the Roman Empire usually focus on its men and their struggles against their neighbours and each other. While men wield weapons ...Read Review
Coming Home to Island House
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It is summer 1939, and Jack Deveraux’s death is less a matter of grief than of challenge to his estranged children: his will ...Read Review
London Lies Beneath
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The year is 1912, and three young friends join the 2nd Walworth Scouts in search of adventures beyond the East End of London: Tom, ...Read Review
Striking Murder
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Wigan, Lancashire, 1893. The town is paralyzed by a coal miners’ strike, and many families are struggling to survive in the bitter winter weather. ...Read Review
Introducing the Ancient Greeks
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Plato described his fellow-Greeks as living “like frogs or ants around the pond.” To the newcomer, they can seem bafflingly hard to grasp, ...Read Review
A Family Christmas
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Young Jimmy and Mo Trewin have been abandoned to the care of the mean-spirited Mrs Huxtable after their mother has died and their ...Read Review
A Little Murder
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Marcia Beasley is found shot through the head at her home in St Johns Wood, London, wearing nothing but a coal-scuttle. While Detective ...Read Review
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
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“This was not the Rome I thought I knew.” Charlotte Higgins’ travels through Roman Britain, both on foot and in a rickety campervan, ...Read Review
The Ways of the World
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It is 1919, and Paris is seething with diplomats and politicians wrangling over the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the ...Read Review
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
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‘Sometimes the past will inspire you and sometimes it will leave you weeping.’ This is history for everyone: the political and religious upheavals ...Read Review
