Here are 2 books that Septimus Brass fans have personally recommended once you finish the Septimus Brass series.
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Published in 2022, this is not Harris's latest novel (that would be 2024's Precipice, which is also excellent). But it was the last one my father gave me, and the last one he read, before he died. He gave me Harris' first novel, Fatherland, when it came out in 1992, and ever since we exchanged copies and chatted about each new Harris book. Harris is a master craftsman of the historical novel, and Act of Oblivion is no exception. Both England and New England in the late-17th century are brought vividly (and terrifyingly) to life. The main character is fictional, but he is the only one who is—a very effective contrivance. So yes, this novel has some personal meaning to me, but I still think that objectively speaking this is historical fiction at its absolute best!
'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES 'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER 'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES
'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'
1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their…
Navalny's career from young optimist in the years after the Gorbachev revolution takes us steadily and almost amiably into his fast-growing determination to challenge the Putin regime, no matter what the risk, and the ultimate cost of his life. It is a sobering but uplifting experience to read this book published after his death in Putin's modern Gulag.
