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The Secret Pianist
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Gabriella, Martine, and Simone are doing their best to survive in a small town along the northern coast of occupied France. When the ...Read Review
To Crown with Liberty
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In 1795, Alix de Morainville Carpentier is haunted by the crumbling world she left behind. A former lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated French ...Read Review
The Unearthed
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Old bones – ‘mossed and soft’ – are discovered in the wilderness near Queenstown. Forensic scientist Antonia Kovacs arrives from Hobart to investigate them, also ...Read Review
The American Queen
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1865: Enslaved twenty-four-year-old Louella yearns for freedom. The selling of her mother which wrenched her family apart, the horrific lynching of her father, and ...Read Review
The Sleeping Beauties
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Now the war’s over, Rosamund Caradon can take the evacuated children in her care back to their London homes. She’s accompanied ...Read Review
Pelican Girls
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Pelican Girls tells a vivid and potent story of women first discarded by society then sent as brides to shore up the floundering ...Read Review
Rose Girl
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In 1256, a woman gives birth in a monastery deep in the Rila mountains. Ivan, a young friar, is the only witness. Roses do ...Read Review
The Bone Hunters
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Lyme Regis, 1824. Ada Winters, 24, lives with mum Edith in a cottage ‘upon the beach’, so close to the sea that high tides almost ...Read Review
Wolves around the Throne (Wolves of Odin Book 4)
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This is the fourth in Simon Turney’s Wolves of Odin Viking series but could easily be read as a standalone. In it ...Read Review
The Storm We Made
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Malaya, 1935. Cecily’s husband is a minor civil servant who admires the British he kowtows to, but Cecily despises them. When the chance ...Read Review