John W. Campbell’s novel The Moon is Hell was published in 1951; my copy was from 1975, some half-dozen years after the first moon landin...

Bernard Cornwell’s twenty-fourth Sharpe novel, Sharpe’s Storm is actually the nineteenth in chronological order, taking place in 1813, foll...

Somerset Maugham’s novel Cakes and Ale was published in 1930; my paperback copy is its fifth printing, 1981 with an author’s preface. The b...

Somerset Maugham’s first novel Liza of Lambeth was published in 1897; my edition is 1978. Almost all of the dialogue is in the vernacular...

  Paul Phillips’s second book in the ‘Chasing Mercury’ series, The Herrenhaus Forfeit was published in 2024 and continues the story begun i...

E.V. Thompson’s third book in the Retallick Saga Harvest of the Sun was published in 1978. It’s a direct sequel of Chase the Wind .   Jos...

E.V. Thompson’s second book in his Retallick saga, Chase the Wind , was published in 1977 and won the Best Historical Novelist Award. In the...

Angela Carter’s slim novel Love was published in 1971 and revised in 1987. In her new Afterword she states that the three main characters a...

Robert Wilson’s spy novel The Company of Strangers was published in 2001. It spans the period 1940 to 1991, though over two-thirds of the b...

Elizabeth Peters’s 1981 novel The Curse of the Pharaohs is the second in her Amelia Peabody mysteries. At her death there were nineteen boo...

LJ Ross’s second DCI Ryan novel Sycamore Gap was published in 2015, several years before two deranged dullards actually felled this famous ...

Paul Phillips’s spy thriller The Borodino Sacrifice (published 2024) is the first book in the Chasing Mercury trilogy.   I can see why Ph...