Samson’s account of the sinking of the King’s warship, the Mary Rose, in Hearstone is unforgettable. Sansom renders it real,[...]

Wolf Hall is very good, but Bring Up The Bodies is even better. Ridiculous to be reading about Cromwell and Henry’s courting[...]

Imperium rocks. It’s the first book in a trilogy about Cicero and his life in Ancient Rome, narrated by Cicero’s[...]

The first novel in a series of six, Dissolution immerses us in the world of hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake, the thinking[...]

When Follett is good (as in this and The Pillars of The Earth) he’s very, very good. In this novel,[...]