Sarah Bower
Cloth Girl
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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