This is a lengthy novel, an epic of 742 pages and was not the fictional work with the English Civil War as its background that I expected. ...

How do you decide which books to add to your TBR pile? Is it the name of the author, the subject, the title or the cover? I added this Reg...

Synopsis While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish i...

If you’re searching for something to read, visit the Historical Writers’ Association web site http://www.thehwa.co.uk/ They have a timelin...

I was disappointed with this novel. The first part was slow and I kept asking myself when will the mystery of Kitty Easton’s disappearance ...

This novel is the first in a new series featuring Captain James Keane, Exploring Officer. It is set in Spain and Portugal during the Penins...

Fans of Audrey Howard, of which I’m one, will find this an excellent read. Set during World War I, it is the story of two brothers, their c...

For my next read I decided to leave the medieval world behind for a while and move forward a few hundred years to the end of the First...

The story opens with John Lawley, swordsman and ex-player,  awakening from a drunken stupor in  "the lowest tavern in Wapping". W...

My browsing has turned up another historical crime writer, Rory Clements. His novels, five to-date, feature an Elizabethan investigator, Joh...

Synopsis They were called "The Devil's Brood," though never to their faces. They were the four surviving sons of Henry ...

My early morning browsing also uncovered another novel by Kate Sedley entitled "For King and Country". It is set during the Eng...

Following my usual routine of having breakfast at the computer and dropping toast crumbs all over my keyboard, I stumbled across the name o...

My bookshop browsing has unearthed more gems for my reading pile - the Captain Daniel Rawson series by Edward Marston. From the dust jacket...

I recently finished reading the last of the five novels that make up this series .... absolutely loved them all. My favourite, however, is...

I just came across a new author (to me anyway), C.C. Humphreys (also writing as Chris Humphreys), who has written a number of novels in the ...