What do you get if you cross a young man, a Russian political exile, a couple of Mexican artists and a United States in the grip of paranoia? Well if you’re lucky you might just get Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Lacuna. I have never read any of her books up until now, and I’d been [...]
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Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
Dark Fire is the second novel in the series by C.J. Sansom and relates the ongoing exploits of Matthew Shardlake a London based lawyer of the 16th century. Throughout the series, Shardlake ploughs a moral furrow through a murky background of religious and political upheaval during the times of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. Read [...]