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A Capital Crime by Laura Wilson – Book Review
My first introduction to Laura Wilson, “A Capital Crime” is one of the most intriguing books I’ve had the pleasure to read this year. Set in the early 1950’s and based on the notoriously tragic true...
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Headline acts of 2011 – A Sneaky Peek
Christmas is almost upon us, the season of goodwill etc etc and I make no apology whatsoever following exalted inspiration from Amanda’s post at Floor To Ceiling Books – I thought I too would take a...
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In The Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff – Book Review
Stefanie Pintoff’s “In The Shadow of Gotham”, a classy and taut historical crime novel, is set at the turn of the 20th century. Winner of The Edgar award for best first novels in America, “Gotham” is a...
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My Top 15 books of 2010
A top 15 is a relative thing and I thought long and hard about what I considered to be my definitive list of the best books published in 2010. To coin the phrase “One man’s meat is another man’s...
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The Fallen Angel by David Hewson – Book Review
The Fallen Angel When I began reviewing books in August last year, one of my main goals was to challenge myself and explore titles I wouldn’t normally read – on the whole I think I’ve done quite well...
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Afrika Reich by Guy Saville – Book Review
Afrika Reich by Guy Saville I’ve always had a fascination for history, an interest my father instilled in me as a kid growing up, at a time when the only history taught in my school was that of the...
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Trinity Six by Charles Cumming – Book Review
Trinity Six by Charles Cumming The film “The Third Man”, the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (or KGB as it’s widely known in the West) and Katarina Witt all have something in common – although the...
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A Dark Anatomy by Robin Blake – Book Review
A Dark Anatomy by Robin Blake It’s been a while since I sat down and read a book based in the 18th century but when I received an advanced copy of Robin Blake’s “A Dark Anatomy” – published by Pan...
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The School of Night by Louis Bayard – Book Review
The School of Night by Louis Bayard In a perfect and indolent reviewing world (and an the inevitable excuse for brevity) I would sum up Louis Bayard’s “The School of Night” with the following:...
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White Heat by M.J. McGrath – Book Review
White Heat by MJ McGrath Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Buster Keaton – not the first thing that comes to mind when reviewing a book set in the desolate regions of the Arctic but...
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The Emperor’s Tomb by Steve Berry – Book Review
The Emperor’s Tomb by Steve Berry When I grow up I want to be Cotton Malone! There I’ve said it – I feel better now – now that I’ve been true to myself – I am Spartacus – I am Cotton Malone! If only...
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Treblinka: A survivor’s Memory by Chil Rajchman – Book Review
Treblinka: A survivor’s Memory It’s hard to imagine that a simple decision to lie about one’s vocation and skills could ever save your life – but this is exactly what happened to Chil Rajchman when,...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford – Book Review
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet – if ever there’s been such an endearing title in the last year I have yet to find one – the hotel, The...
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The Absolutist by John Boyne – Book Review
The Absolutist by John Boyne How does one begin to review The Absolutist by John Boyne (The Boy in the striped pyjamas)? To say I am, forgive me while I use a World War one descriptive, shell shocked,...
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History from the other side by James Aitcheson
The idea for Sworn Sword came to me while I was in my final year at Cambridge, researching for my dissertation on the Norman Conquest. Although the focus of my study was mainly on the years leading up...
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History in the Court with Goldsboro Books
Goldsboro Books have officially launched the History in the Court website and advise that tickets for this event, in association with the The Historical Writers’ Association, are now available! So what...
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Egypt: The Book of Chaos by Nick Drake – Book Review
Egypt: The Book of Chaos Egypt, 1320 BC The future of Egypt lies in the hands of chief detective Rahotep when he undertakes a clandestine mission across enemy empires and rogue states to deliver a...
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11.22.63 by Stephen King – Book Review
11.22.63 by Stephen King WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was...
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A little over twelve months ago I read Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd and was blown away by the narrative, storytelling and characterisation, so much so the book was one of my top reads for...
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The Hunters by Chris Kuzneski – Book Review
The Hunters The Hunters: Financed by a billionaire philanthropist, this elite team – an ex-soldier, an historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert, and a thief – is tasked with finding the world’s...
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