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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Review: The Normans by Judith Green

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Synopsis: A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England. In the eleventh centu...

Review: The Mysterious Romance of Murder by David Lehman

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Synopsis: From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster,...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Review: Women in the Medieval Court by Rebecca Holdorph

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Synopsis: While the courts of medieval Europe ate up tales of knights in shining armor and damsels in distress, the reality for the elite w...

Review: Daughters of the North by Jennifer Morag Henderson

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Synopsis: Mary, Queen of Scots’ marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell’s first wife, Jean Gordon, who extric...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Ian Fleming’s Legacy: John Gardner’s James Bond

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From Simon Ward, September 2021 CRA Newsletter By 1979 John Gardner was the successful author behind fourteen books, including an autobiogr...

The Perveen Mistry Novels by Sujata Massey

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  Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first femal...
Monday, March 28, 2022

'Slow Horses' Review: Gary Oldman Leads A Crackling Old School John Le Carre-Esque Spy Thriller About Losers

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From The Playlist : “I think they’re f*cking losers,” spy veteran Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) says with characteristic brutal honesty to Mi5 ...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Review: Aedan of the Gaels by Keith Coleman

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Synopsis: This is the first full-length work devoted to Aedan mac Gabrain, 6th century king of Dal Riata in Scotland.  An associate of the ...
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Review: The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak

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Synopsis: The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilif...