by Andrew Taylor This started with a list of characters, something I always skip past. They don't mean anything until they become a part of the story! However, once the story began, some familiar characters from the first book of the series appeared, most notably Catherine Lovett and James Marwo...
by Andrew Taylor The Ashes of London is set against the Great London Fire of 1666. There are two stories intertwined. A first person narrative from James Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, who is tasked to track down the killer of a mummified corpse found in St Paul's after it has burned down, a...
Hugh Kendall is a young boy in England, 1939. Hugh is seen as a burden by his father and after Hugh is kicked out of school, Hugh's father is offered a mission through the British Intelligence Service. Alfred Kendall or Captain Kendall, as he prefers to be called is sent to Prague on a simple excha...
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an official DNF. I don't make those very often; mostly I let a book marinate in my "currently reading" pile, because I might get back to it. I save DNF for a book that I know I will never "get back to." Ashes of London is one of those. And I'm disappointed, becau...
Andrew Taylor has made a career out of historical thrillers and his latest book is a compelling dive into post-republic Britain. Many of us perhaps recall 1666 as the year of the 'great fire of London', a catastrophic event in the history of the nation, often taught in classrooms alongside the impac...
I read this after attending a talk on World Book Night by the author. Still, my curiosity was well rewarded. A real 'page-turner', I slipped through the book in just three or four sittings and the plot moved through the gears effortlessly. In spite of the powerless situation in which the ten year-ol...
After witnessing the murder of his mother Charles is struck dumb (or rather takes dumb) after the assailant tells him to “Say nothing. Not ever.” He is quickly whisked away to England by the Count de Quillion, one of the men potentially his father, to escape the Revolution, only for the specter of h...
Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves ...
*Disclaimer*I was halfway through this book before I realised I wasn't reading the book I thought I was. I believed I was reading The Four Last Things and so I reviewed what I was reading with the expectation that the plotline of The Four Last Things would eventually appear. I made comments asking w...
25/9 - I love it when people (in books or tv, I've never actually heard it said in RL) use the phrase "Is that the time? I must dash." or words to that effect. It always brings me back to Fawlty Towers, I can't remember exactly which episode it's from but reading it always makes me laugh. To be cont...
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