Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history but he has also published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. His recent books include The Geographies of an Imperial Power: Britain 1688-1815, Fortifications and Siegecraft: Defense and Attack through the Ages, and Strategy and the Second World War: How the War was Won, and Lost

Tales from the gothic to the macabre

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British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East

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From killers down under to death across the pond

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The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney

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There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe

Features

Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest

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Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI

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Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld

Books

April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land

Books

Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters

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