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It's something you don't see very often: Elaine Thomson's first ghost story, 'Hawthorn: A Scottish Ghost Story', hasn...

Giles Milton’s 'Nathaniel's Nutmeg' with its somewhat expansive subtitle, 'How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of H...

While World War II rages in Europe, another sort of war is erupting in and around Woodville, a quiet village in rural Kent. Faye Bright al...

Many of us fondly remember the British sitcom 'Dad's Army' about some bungling members of the United Kingdom's Home Guard du...

On 19 th of December, renowned puzzle setter, lonelyness expert, and Christmas hater Edie O’Sullivan finds a hand-delivered present on her ...

Here , on May 11, 2024, we rather exitedly published the news that Elaine Thomson's next book would be titled ' The Caithness Polter...

Elaine Thomson came to Edinburgh University in 1987 to study English Literature but switched to History after a year. By the time she left t...

Noem tegenwoordig de walvisvaart en menigeen zal negatief of walgend reageren. Niet dat walvissen aaibaar zijn, maar 'het kan niet meer...

While browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland in October 2023, Brian Cleary, an amateur historian discovered a long-lost sh...

On May 11, 2024, Elaine Thomson revealed the title of her next book on social media with an image of the first draft of 'The Caithness P...

I’d always wanted to be a writer. I read a lot as a child, and wrote loads of stories at primary school – long rambling things, usually base...

Writer and historian Lucy Worsley (1973) has written 'Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman', a passionate and very readable biograp...

Finally, I had the book in my hands: the seventh adventure of Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain. In this installment, Flockhart and Quarter...

DI Rosalind (Roz) Parker, who’s just retired from the police force in London, is on her way to Fort William, Scotland, trying to be in time ...

Smyrna (now called Izmir) was once one of the Ottoman Empire's great mercantile centers on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Even durin...

Many, many Christmasses ago, people would politely queue to obtain the latest mystery from Agatha Christie. A 'Christie for Christmas...

For Alexandra Benedict (1977), her diagnosis of autism and ADHD as an adult helped her make sense of her life - and understand her place in ...

Let us sketch the scenery first before we start a proper review of this book. Modern archaeology evolved in the late-19th century when am...

Since 2016, Elaine Thomson writes a series of mysteries featuring a apothecary in mid-Victorian London called Jem Flockhart. Jeremiah Jemim...

On the north coast of Jamaica lies Montego Bay. For tourists, it's paradise, for some inhabitants it resembles hell. Detective Preddy an...

Mustique. Just let the word enter your brain, savour it, and you simply know: this little island in the Caribbean must have magical views, t...

I've read Jacob Ross' 'The Bone Readers' (review here ) and was truly impressed. Could its sequel 'Black Rain Falling...

Professor Bastiaans (1917-1997) was jarenlang bekend door zijn behandeling van overlevenden van concentratiekampen. Hij gaf een naam aan hun...

Forget 'Death in Paradise', the light-hearted television series (and books), created by Robert Thorogood, that paint an idyllic life...

In the end, it was just a hype. After Joanne Rowling enamoured the world with her adventures about Harry Potter, the wizard and his wizard...