16th Century
There Is A Place
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Set in Scotland in the aftermath of Flodden Field, There Is A Place is an interesting novel that is slightly different to the ...Read Review
The Hostage of Glenorchy
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Gabrielle – Abby – is an eighteen-year-old widow and an accomplished musician under the tutelage of her father in Paris when she overhears a plot ...Read Review
Struck with the Dart of Love: Je Anne Boleyn, Book One
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Sandra Vasoli takes up the old familiar story of King Henry VIII’s stormy relationship with Anne Boleyn, the woman who would become ...Read Review
The Girl in the Glass Tower
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Queen Elizabeth I is ageing and without an heir. Arbella Stuart, niece to Mary Queen of Scots, is first in line for the ...Read Review
Conspiracy
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Italian philosopher, Giordano Bruno is in a confession booth giving the priest a list of his sins. We are instantly gripped by the ...Read Review
The Castle of Kings
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Germany, 1524. Agnes is the daughter of a castellan whose home is the former seat of the Holy Roman Empire, but now fallen into ...Read Review
The Ninja’s Daughter: A Hiro Hattori Novel
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In 16th-century Japan, the ninja Hiro Hattori and Father Mateo, the priest Hiro is assigned to protect, awake early one morning to learn ...Read Review
City of Wisdom and Blood / Heretic Dawn
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City of Wisdom and Blood and Heretic Dawn are books two and three of Robert Merle’s Fortunes of France series, which follows ...Read Review
The Dark Lady’s Mask
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It is not often that I read a novel that makes me want to do actual research on a person – in a good ...Read Review
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
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1501: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti return to their Florentine homeland in the opening years of the 16th century. At 50 years of age, ...Read Review
