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Jake Arnott

Jake Arnott: The Devil's Paintbrush

28 May 2009

Moving far away from his London-centric crime tales, Jake Arnott has plundered a chance and highly unlikely meeting between two figures from Britain’s colonial past. The Black Isle-born Hector Macdonald, aka Fighting Mac, was a proud general who fought…

Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

31 Jul 2008

HISTORICAL FICTION (John Murray) This is a big, plush velvet cushion of a book, dense with historical detail and already picking up comparisons to Sarah Waters’ weighty, sexy epics. It’s the story of Lilly Aphrodite, an orphan turned silent movie…

Norman Mailer

The Castle in the Forest (Little, Brown)

12 Feb 2007

HISTORICAL FICTION No one should deny Norman Mailer’s right to create novels about whatever the hell he wants. Much gnashing of teeth has already occurred in Germany over an octogenarian alpha male from Massachusetts writing about the darkest days of…

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