2006
Beyond the Blue Hills
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This is a little different from the usual saga. Two groups of people, one family who is Liverpool-based, the other family farming in ...Read Review
Murder Most Royal
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I first read Murder Most Royal as a teenager. On re-reading this spending looking reprint I found the writing still fresh and sharp, ...Read Review
How the Hangman Lost his Heart
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
London, 1746. When Alice’s Uncle Frank is executed for supporting Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite cause, his niece is determined to bring ...Read Review
Saint Thomas’s Eve
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Plaidy’s sixth novel in her Tudor series is a compelling reconstruction of the life of Sir Thomas More. The novel commences with ...Read Review
Ivy
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The heroine of the book captures the reader’s sympathy as her naivety, beauty and innocence are abused as her story unfolds. Born ...Read Review
The Sixth Wife
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Plaidy’s retelling of the story of Katharine Parr is masterly. Those who know little more of Katharine than that she survived Henry ...Read Review
The Charioteer of Delphi
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
A.D. 80. In this twelfth Roman Mystery, Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus are in Rome for the races in honour of Jupiter at ...Read Review
The Thistle and the Rose
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Plaidy’s eighth Tudor novel vividly reconstructs the dramatic life of Margaret Tudor, from the time of her early marriage to King James ...Read Review
Tilly True
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Tilly True is another of Dilly Court’s sagas set in Victorian London. It’s a big read, over 500 pages, spanning several years, ...Read Review
Troublesome Angels and the Red Island Pirates
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Bianca and Eva are making their way to Venice when they are marooned by pirates on an island en route. They find shelter ...Read Review
