for Daniel Hawker, a smith. The smithy at Lea was a squat building made of stones piled on top of one another without much apparent care. Inside I saw a ...
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Rory Clements, whose sixth book in the John Shakespeare series of Elizabethan thrillers has just been published, uncovers a deadly circle of intrigue and treason in his hero’s home town, ...
They are building the wall in the swamp, digging the trench, maintaining the sluices to keep the area dry. Still, water seeps in. The wall will never stand ...
“Laurence Sterne wouldn’t have written this novel. He’d have probably read it in the dark, and then not admitted to reading it. The 18th century couldn’t have published this, unless ...
It’s London, 1850, and private detective Charles Maddox has just been given a new case. Sir Percy Shelley and his wife are being harassed by someone threatening to make public ...
San Miguel is the latest literary offering from the prolific Tom Coraghessan Boyle (14 novels and nine short story collections to date), in which the eponymous island of the novel, ...
Early signs of Lawrence Norfolk’s John Saturnall’s Feast are promising, especially if you a judge a book by its embossed cover—and the intricate illustrations contained within its pages—made more potent ...