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Andrew has all the skills of the novelist, notably plot, characterisation and the deft depiction of setting and palletting of ambience, but he adds the truth of occasion and a judgment fixed in more than the convenience and conceit of a storyteller who can arrange his fictional pieces.Īndrew is sympathetic to George, but, more significantly, understanding of and through him. Having written two biographies of George (as well as others of George II, Walpole and Pitt the Elder), and a group biography of the Hanoverians, I am also the person best suited to write about Andrew’s George III.īrilliantly written, this George comes from one of our finest biographers. Private Eye has long commented, with reason and much humour, on the puffing of friends in such items, and I am a longstanding friend of Andrew. His depiction of combat in submarines and the drama of the control room is second to none. Lewis, a former Royal Navy officer, who served in submarines, is at his best.
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Richard Miller the lead protagonist and a character based partly on the legendary Royal Naval officer Captain Francis Cromie, keeps up the campaign even as Russia disintegrates around him and explodes into Revolution. It tells the tale of the Royal Navy’s little known submarine campaign in the Baltic, against merchant ships carrying vital iron ore from Sweden to Germany. It is the fourth instalment of his ‘For Those in Peril’ series, set during World War One, and is the best yet. Keeping with the theme of the Russian Revolution, Shaun Lewis’s Where the Baltic Ice Is Thin has been another favourite of mine during 2021. I haven’t read Morris’s previous St Petersburg Mysteries Series, but their definitely on my reading list. There are also some nice references to Dostoyevsky. Morris effortlessly conveys the Tsarist Regime living on borrowed time, while the affable Virginsky struggles to hold back the forces of history.
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This is a gripping thriller that subtly draws the reader into the turbulent world of Nineteen Century Russia. In Law of Blood, Virginsky investigates the murder of a revolutionary and becomes drawn into the murky world of the Third Section (secret police) revolutionary politics and palace intrigues. Morris’s new Empire of Shadows series, featuring magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky.