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Friday, August 29, 2014

Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell

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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...
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Thursday, August 07, 2014

Searching for a Good Read?

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If you’re searching for something to read, visit the Historical Writers’ Association web site http://www.thehwa.co.uk/ They have a timelin...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller
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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 ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Book Review: Keane's Company by Iain Gale

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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...
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...
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