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Silk Road by Colin Falconer

Silk Road is the first of Colin Falconer’s historical fiction novels that I’ve read so far, and from the quality of this piece of work, I’m certainly looking forward to reading more. After doing a little research, I discovered that he has a fairly extensive back catalogue of previously published novels, and that he favours [...]

Mozart’s Last Aria by Matt Rees

Matt Rees is undoubtedly best known for the series of crime novels set in the Middle East featuring his fictional creation Omar Yussef. Rees gathered the ideas and inspiration for the Omar Yussef series whilst working as a foreign correspondent in the region, but it was during a sabbatical away from the danger and violence, [...]

The Emperor’s Gold by Robert Wilton

Corvus Books (an imprint of Atlantic Books) are starting to become a bit of a happy hunting ground for me in finding emerging talent in the crime and historical fiction genres to review. I was therefore more than a little fascinated by the sound of a debut novel called The Emperor’s Gold by Robert Wilton; [...]

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

I actually received my copy of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood as a prize in a competition being run by Foyles bookshop for World Book Night earlier this year. As the prize could have been any one of the twenty five titles being promoted I was doubly pleased when the package landed on the [...]