The first book in the Hatton and Roumande mystery series. A stunning debut rich in period detail and sinister intrigue that introduces a memorable duo – one of London’s first…

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…to your March To Do lists… Follow the Maisie Month Blog Tour and enjoy a string of reviews and discussion about the Maisie Dobbs novels, starting this week with a…

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…what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation – the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask…

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…Most recently another of his works, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, has been produced for the stage by theatre company Kneehigh who, following a run at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre…

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The Paul Klee exhibition at the Tate Modern from 16th October to the 19th March 2014 is a celebration of the artist’s life and works as has never been seen…

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…delighted to have author Beryl Matthews on the blog today to share the process that works for her. Beryl’s latest novel Friends and Enemies is now out on paperback and…

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In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen…

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The second book in the Mercia Blakewood historical crime series that spans Restoration London and the New World Following adventures she would sooner forget in the newly renamed New York,…

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…has had great success and brilliant reviews – in case you haven’t heard of it, it’s the frank, moving, and (I hear) sometimes funny story of a boy born with…

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…in love. But war is a brutal thing, and there is a terrible price that Iris has to pay – a price that will echo down the generations. Recommend This:…

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Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who…

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The year is 1900 and China is once again plunged into barbaric chaos. The Boxers, a cult of young peasants who blame the foreign barbarians living in their country –…

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1261. Oxford, England. An envoy returns from the land of the Tartars to meet with an English scholar and share a deadly secret that touches on the future of Christianity…

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Julie Monday, abandoned by her mother and raised in a children’s home, enjoys a rare moment of happiness when at the age of eight she visits the Essex seaside and…

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Five cops. Drinking beer, playing cards, busting balls. I’ll never forget that Sunday night. It was the happiest time the five of us would ever spend together again. A group…

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Five cops. Drinking beer, playing cards, busting balls. I’ll never forget that Sunday night. It was the happiest time the five of us would ever spend together again. A group…

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…you’re not exactly sure what’ll be in it. Most of the food is delivered (for free) within 24 hours of being picked. Not bad at all. Neither is the price,…

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The third book in the Nicholas Bracewell series   For Lord Westfield’s Men, Every high road leads to death.   When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the…

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  On Easter Day, the Reverend Tobias Campion returns from morning service and discovers a putrefying corpse nailed to a tree. A crown of thorns tops the victim’s head; the…

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