Tom Williams
The Christmas Stocking Murders (A Frank Grasby Mystery, 2)
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The Christmas Stocking Murders is, as the title suggests, a cozy crime mystery for the Christmas season. It’s reviewed here as historical ...Read Review
Blood and Fireflies (The Gracchus & Vanderville Mysteries 1)
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It’s 1797, and Napoleon, having (sort of) conquered Italy, has paused his campaign so that he can marry off his sisters. The venue ...Read Review
Napoleon’s Run (The William John Hazzard Series, Book 1)
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This is a Napoleonic spy story set against the background of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Our hero, William Hazzard, is sent to ...Read Review
The Straits of Treachery
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There is a style of military historical fiction which emphasises the minutiae of warfare – details of uniforms, the weapons carried, the precise way ...Read Review
Rage of the Assassin (Bow Street Rivals)
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This is the latest in Marston’s Bow Street Rivals series. It reads well as a stand-alone novel even if you have not ...Read Review
The Victorians: Twelve Titans Who Forged Britain
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Much of the criticism of The Victorians is based on a misapprehension. Serious historians have reviewed it as if it were a serious ...Read Review
A Treacherous Coast
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Our hero, John Pearce, is in the tradition of Sharpe and many other 19th-century military heroes: he has risen from the ranks by ...Read Review
The Cauliflower®
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This is a historical novel like no other I have read. The author herself suggests that the book is more a collage, with ...Read Review
The Cunning House
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1810: Jane Austen has just left Bath for Chawton; Sense and Sensibility is to be published the following year. Turley, though, plunges us into ...Read Review
Under the Tripoli Sky
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Under the Tripoli Sky is translated from French. The translation reads well, but the style can seem rather pretentious in English. Not many ...Read Review
