Sally Zigmond
Figures in Silk
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Vanora Bennett’s debut was the fascinating Portrait of an Unknown Woman. In her second novel, she turns her attention to the previous ...Read Review
The Grail Enigma : The Hidden Heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene
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The theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and founded a dynasty inextricably entwined with the search for the Holy Grail shows no ...Read Review
The Principessa
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We first met the Firemaster, Francis Quoynt, embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot in the pages of The Firemaster’s Mistress. As this new ...Read Review
The Coal Gatherer
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Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living on the north-east ...Read Review
The Rose of Sebastopol
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Mariella Lingwood is a typical Victorian young lady. She is quiet, dutiful, unadventurous, shy and modest. She helps her mother in her charitable ...Read Review
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
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The subtitle of this fascinating book is ‘A Woman in World History.’ Because it is not just a biography of a remarkable but ...Read Review
Burning Bright
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The novel takes its title from what is probably William Blake’s most famous poem, and its premise is the contrasting, but closely ...Read Review
The Scarlet Lion
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This novel is a sequel to The Greatest Knight which told the early story of William Marshal, although any reader can, as I ...Read Review
The Tyrants
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This large-format hardback is an anthology of fifty of the most autocratic leaders the world has known. All the usual suspects are here. ...Read Review
Measuring the World
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With its lively translation, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World tells the parallel stories of two scientists who were child prodigies, Alexander von ...Read Review