Elizabeth Speller, Author Oxford University Press $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-19-516576-0
This is an odd if appealing amalgam, which the publisher describes as""part travelogue, biography and fictional memoir,"" recounting the life of second-century Roman emperor Hadrian when the empire was at its peak of power. The memoir is not Hadrian'
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Elizabeth Speller. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-547-51169-6
Londoner Laurence Bartram, three years after coming home from WWI a shell of his former self, starts to reawaken at the outset of this moving mystery debut from British classics scholar Speller (Following Hadrian). The young widower begins probing...
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Elizabeth Speller. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-60598-497-1
This well-told, well-plotted war epic from British novelist Speller (The Return of Captain John Emmett) tracks the life experiences of four disparate Allied soldiers fighting in the bloody Battle of the Somme. Jean-Baptiste Mallet is a French...
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Elizabeth Speller. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-547-54752-7
Set in 1924, Speller’s intriguing second mystery to feature WWI veteran Laurence Bartram (after 2011’s The Return of Captain John Emmett) takes Bartram to Wiltshire, where disabled architect William Bolitho has invited him to view a church with...
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