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The Widow’s Guild (A Francis Bacon Mystery)

By Anna Castle - Published 2015

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Anna Castle continues her series of the adventures of Francis Bacon with this story of Elizabethan England poised on the brink of invasion, ...Read Review

A Man without a Mistress (The Penningtons, Book Two)

By Bliss Bennet - Published 2015

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Romance

“A man determined to atone for the past by immersing himself in political work — and by avoiding all entanglements with the ladies of ...Read Review

Sacrifice (Book 1 of Y Ddraig – The Dragons of Brython)

By Gwendolyn Beynon - Published 2015

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Adventure Historical Fantasy

“Melangell must enter captivity with the egg to defend the sleeping dragonling within.” Gwendolyn Beynon’s fast-paced and utterly winning debut is a ...Read Review

The Barcelona Journal Murders

By Jonathan Coen Daifuku - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

It is 1906 and the photographer C makes a living teaching the young ladies of Barcelona high-society to take pictures – a suitably amusing skill ...Read Review

A Singular Captain

By John Regan - Published 2014

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Nautical

In 1518, the young king of Castile, Carlos V, decided to finance a five-ship expedition led by famous Portuguese navigator and sea-captain, Ferdinand Magellan. ...Read Review

Frontier Highlander

By Dorothy Wiley - Published 2015

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Romance

Frontier Highlander is the fourth book in Wiley’s American Wilderness Romance Series, featuring Artis McKay and Daniel “Bear” McKee. Both were born ...Read Review

Turning Points

By Sian Turner - Published 2013

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This is a coming of age novel set in the decades just after the end of WWII, with little Carys Bowen as the ...Read Review

Voyage of Strangers (Mendoza Family Saga)

By Elizabeth Zelvin - Published 2013 Published 2014-09-30

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Adventure Nautical

In October of 1492, Christopher Columbus set foot on a small island in the West Indies – yet another of those ‘small step for man, ...Read Review

1914

By Charles B. Smith - Published 2014

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Epic Military

Smith’s hefty and entirely impressive debut novel, 1914, dramatizes the cataclysmic opening year of the First World War through the viewpoints of a ...Read Review