Sarah Bower

Cloth Girl

By Marilyn Heward Mills - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

In the mid-1930s, naïve bride Audrey Turton travels to Ghana to join her colonial officer husband. At the same time, fourteen-year-old ...Read Review

The Last Templar

By Raymond Khoury - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

The hugely successful Da Vinci Code has resulted in a cottage industry of thrillers depicting various conspiracies surrounding the founding and early growth ...Read Review

Rosetta

By Barbara Ewing - Published 2006

Genres:

As a child, Rose Hall is fascinated with language and stories. When her father reveals that she was named for the port of ...Read Review

The Goodman of Paris: Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by a Citizen of Paris

By Anon (tr. Eileen Powell) - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

This book of instruction by an older man for his young wife was written around 1393, and Eileen Power’s excellent translation, both clear ...Read Review

Katherine

By Anya Seton - Published 2004 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

EpicRomance

This assignment is both an absolute joy and something of a challenge. Hodder have re-packaged Anya Seton’s classic under their ‘Hodder Great ...Read Review

Bestiary

By Richard Barber - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Bestiaries give a unique insight into the mediaeval mind, relating their primary function as natural history to giving moral examples (the busy bee, ...Read Review

Medievalism and Orientalism

By John M. Ganin - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

At last year’s HNS Conference I remember being forcibly struck by Anne Harries’ references to ‘the magic realism of history’. In this ...Read Review