Tom Williams
The Swan Daughter
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It’s 1075. Eighteen-year-old Gunnhild, King Harold’s daughter, is living in a nunnery. She has no wish to be a nun: she is ...Read Review
Ypres Memories
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This is a graphic novel about the First World War. Although presented as fiction, it’s more in the nature of a drama-documentary. ...Read Review
Ticket to Paradise
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In 1865, the English were giving the Welsh a hard time. (Nothing changes.) Desperate to preserve their language and way of life, some emigrated ...Read Review
The Tsar’s Dragons
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In 1869 Tsar Nicholas invited a Welshman to develop mining and ironworks in Ukraine. John Hughes brought with him Welsh miners and iron-workers. They ...Read Review
The Art of Killing Well
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It’s 1895. The famous cookery writer, Pellegrino Artusi, has been invited to spend the weekend with a baron and his family. At the ...Read Review
England Expects
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In 1953, Mirabelle Bevan, ex-SOE agent, is running a debt collection agency in Brighton. She like to play detective, so when a woman asks ...Read Review
Keane’s Challenge (Captain James Keane)
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This is the sequel to Keane’s Company (reviewed in HNR 65) and is probably best read after that book. Keane is an exploring ...Read Review
A Union Not Blessed
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In 1805, ex-Vice President Aaron Burr plots treason against the United States. The American Secret Service blackmails South American revolutionary, Sebastian Francisco de Miranda ...Read Review
A Man Against a Background of Flames
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Appleby, a history lecturer, stumbles across records of a massacre in a Wiltshire village. His researches suggest that in 1594 the Bishop of Salisbury ...Read Review
