by NRB | 13 Nov 2014 | Fiction |
A novel of intrigue, heresy, violence and betrayal set in the turmoil of 16th-century England. Beginning with Dissolution in 2003, this the sixth book in Sansom’s highly successful Matthew Shardlake series of novels set in the reign of the second Tudor king – Henry...
by NRB | 14 Apr 2012 | Fiction, The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Historical novels have always been my favourite kind of recreational reading. From Baroness Orczy’s Scarlet Pimpernel to Georgette Heyer’s Regency bucks to sterner stuff like Henry Treece’s bloody tales of Saxon and Roman Britain, I escaped from a dreary...
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