The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Princess of Thebes was wheeled on a gurney into the laboratory. Peta Raven observed the porters’ careful progression through the doorway and up to the table. No corpse should be, or ever was, treated negligently in this place but custody of the princess invoked an...
V.L. Valentine’s visceral debut skilfully immerses the reader in the dread and despair of plague-ridden London during the stinking hot summer of 1665. The story centres on Symon Patrick, the young Rector of St. Paul’s in Covent Garden, and his discovery that, among...
Siege: Edge of Empire is Alistair Tosh’s debut, and the novel does not disappoint. Packed with explosive dialogue and demonstrating the claustrophobia of battle, Tosh has created the first title in what promises to be a thrilling series. Firstly, we meet Lucius...
Enemies & Allies is the third book in Alan Bardos’s thrilling Johnny Swift series, following the debauched anti-hero as he manoeuvres through the First World War. Whilst part of a series, the story is also well self-contained. Bardos immerses the reader in a...
A Choir of Crows is the 12th novel in Candace Robb’s enormously successful series of Owen Archer mysteries. It follows A Conspiracy of Wolves but, like all the others, it stands on its own. In A Choir of Crows, Candace Robb carries her readers back to the winter of...
Night can hide all manner of monsters, some of them imagined and some of them real. In Blackout, Scarrow vividly brings to life Berlin in 1939. A vibrant cosmopolitan city, confident after Germany’s victory over Poland. However in the depth of a freezing winter, with...
Peter Tonkin, It’s that time of the year and we’re at the Ides of March – what is it about the assassination that fascinates you? I’m sure there must be many turning points in history where chance or fate seemed to take a hand, but the assassination of Julius Caesar...
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If you are looking for a page-turning historical novel that explores race and class in the late 18th century, as well as being filled with action and engaging characters, then read Ranger. Laced with intrigue, war and the complexity of racial prejudice within English...
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