Philip Vella’s comprehensive account of the Second World War siege of Malta was published in 1985; my copy was the third edition, 1989. In t...

Brendan DuBois’s alternate history novel Resurrection Day was published in 1999. The ‘what if?’ scenario is tantalising indeed: What if the...

  Anne Rice’s 1989 novel The Mummy ( or Ramses the Damned ) is not a novelisation of the Brendan Fraser film (which came out ten years late...

  The subtitle of the Osprey book SOE Agent is Churchill’s Secret Warriors ; text by Terry Crowdy, colour illustrations by Steve Noon. This...

In the mid-1960s I read a few books by Victor Canning and thoroughly enjoyed them. For some reason I didn’t read any more (maybe suborned by...

  Winston Graham’s 1959 novel The Tumbled House is a romantic suspense novel long out of print; my copy is the fourth impression dated 19...

Bernard Cornwell’s latest (2023) Sharpe adventure Sharpe’s Command places our hero at the battle of the Bridge at Almaraz, 1812 – as usual,...

  The prolific Ken Follett’s Jackdaws was published in 2001. His output is varied and broad in theme and place and time. Here, he returns t...

  Alan Titchmarsh’s memoir Nobbut a Lad – A Yorkshire childhood was published in 2006. Titchmarsh is familiar to UK television viewers th...

  Garry Kilworth’s debut novel In Solitary was published in 1977. Since then he has produced novels in a broad number of genres, among them...

  This is the third book by Mark Mills – each one different in place and time. The Information Officer was published in 2009. It’s set in M...

  Garry Kilworth’s second novel The Night of Kadar was published in 1978. It’s a fascinating novel based on the generation starship conce...