Saturday, November 23, 2013
An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
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This is my old copy of this book. It cost me 90 cents back in 1968/69 and, if I remember correctly, was purchased from our local newsagen...
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Book Review: Softly Grow the Poppies by Audrey Howard
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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...
Friday, November 08, 2013
More Adventures in Redcoats
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Surfing the internet has once again uncovered two more authors writing in the historical military fiction genre, IAIN GALE and ADRIAN GOLDSW...
Book Review: The Dashing Captain Daniel Rawson
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Captain Daniel Rawson is the main character in a series of novels by Edward Marston set during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 to 1...
Matthew Hawkwood - A Regency James Bond
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James McGee writes crime novels set in Regency London during the Napoleonic Wars featuring Matthew Hawkwood, an ex-soldier, who is now a ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Book Review: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
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"THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN" has all the right elements to be a good read - a lost child, a devastating revelation, an unsuitable mar...
Friday, October 25, 2013
Another Redcoat Series
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"THE SCARLET THIEF" is the first in a new series by Paul Fraser Collard introducing Jack Lark and his adventures in the Crimean...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Book Review: The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
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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...
Book Review: Shakespeare's Rebel by C.C. Humphreys
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The story opens with John Lawley, swordsman and ex-player, awakening from a drunken stupor in "the lowest tavern in Wapping". W...
Rory Clements, Historical Crime Writer
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My browsing has turned up another historical crime writer, Rory Clements. His novels, five to-date, feature an Elizabethan investigator, Joh...
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
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Synopsis They were called "The Devil's Brood," though never to their faces. They were the four surviving sons of Henry ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Also by Kate Sedley
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My early morning browsing also uncovered another novel by Kate Sedley entitled "For King and Country". It is set during the Eng...
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