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I’ve just got back from God’s Own Country, spending a few days in the glorious Yorkshire Dales with HF Holidays and their guests on the inaugural Brontë Book Club Weekend. I was there in my role as Editor of...
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, a picaresque novel set in 17th Century Germany. Translated by Ross Benjamin. Of course I had heard of Tyll Ulenspiegel (also Till Eulenspiegel), a mythical will-o-the-wisp character who flamboyantly weaves his way through war ravaged...
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee, murder mystery set in Assam and East London. This is the fourth in the Sam Wyndham series and can be read as a stand alone. 1922. It is now time that Sam...
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris – a ‘medieval’ mystery, set in Wessex. The Second Sleep is set in the Year of the Risen Lord 1468. A newly ordained priest is sent on a mission to Wessex to bury...
Death on the Danube by Jennifer S Alderson, cozy murder mystery set along the Danube (Budapest). “Agatha Christie said that most murders were committed for one of four reasons: jealousy, greed, a desire for power, and revenge…” This is...
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