Tracey Warr
The Body on the Doorstep
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Late on a moonless night in Kent in 1796, Reverend Hardcastle opens the rectory door to find a man shot, dying, whispering four mysterious ...Read Review
Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill Fortune
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This is the second of Kate Griffin’s novels featuring Kitty Peck, a young woman living in Victorian Limehouse. Kitty has risen from ...Read Review
Queen and Country
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Hew Cullen is a landowner and lawyer from Saint Andrews who finds himself – not entirely through his own volition – in London in the ...Read Review
The Taxidermist’s Daughter
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Connie is a self-possessed young woman living in an isolated house at the edge of flooding water meadows in Sussex. She is coping ...Read Review
The Lady Agnes Mystery, Volumes 1 and 2
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Across these two volumes, translated from the original French, Andrea Japp tells the story of Lady Agnes de Souarcy, who we meet at ...Read Review
Henry II: A Prince Among Princes
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Henry II ruled from 1154 to 1189, and there was a long stretch of peace in England during his reign. This miniature biography in the ...Read Review
The Chosen Queen
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In 1055, Edyth Alfgarsdottir is the young daughter of a Saxon Earl at the court of King Edward, where she is befriended by Harold ...Read Review
King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
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The fifth son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, John inherited the Angevin kingdom in 1199, after the deaths of his brothers. John ...Read Review
Elizabeth I and Her Circle
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Susan Doran’s meticulously researched book on Elizabeth I takes an unusual and effective approach to its subject. Rather than a chronological account, ...Read Review
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
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Thomas Asbridge’s highly readable book on the life of the medieval knight, William Marshal, is effectively aimed at both lay and academic ...Read Review