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A Maid on Fifth Avenue

By Sinead Crowley - Published 2024

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1920s Ballydrynawn, West Kerry. Annie Thornton ties a white lace handkerchief to the Fairy Tree, hoping the magic will cure her mother. But ...Read Review

The Girls Who Dared to Love

By Diney Costeloe - Published 2024

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Romance

1914, London, and Lucinda McFarlane, presented for her coming-out into society, curtseys to the King and Queen. She launches into a whirlwind season of ...Read Review

My Lady’s Secrets

By Katy Moran - Published 2024

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This is a Regency novel in that it is set in 1812, during the Regency, and it is populated by the sort of people ...Read Review

The Witch’s Daughter

By Imogen Edwards-Jones - Published 2023

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This follow-up to Edwards-Jones’ The Witches of St Petersburg continues the story of Grand Duchess Militza Nikolayevna and her sister Grand Duchess Anastasia. ...Read Review

Diva

By Daisy Goodwin - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

The drama that surrounded Maria Callas, onstage and in her personal life, is brought to life fully and sensitively in this complex novel. ...Read Review

The Enemy of Love (Aria Book)

By Annabelle Thorpe - Published 2023

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1943 was a difficult year for Italy. Until July it fought as an ally of Germany against the British and Americans in Tunisia and ...Read Review

Escape to Florence (US) / Escape to Tuscany (UK)

By Kat Devereaux - Published 2023

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In Escape to Florence, Kat Devereaux has created an ambitious, moving novel that toggles between German-occupied Italy in 1944 and Italy in 2019. In one ...Read Review

No Life for a Lady

By Hannah Dolby - Published 2023

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Historical fiction usually takes itself seriously, often very seriously. Readers seldom turn to it for light relief. No Life for a Lady is ...Read Review

The Girl Who Dared to Dream

By Diney Costeloe - Published 2022

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Saga

This is a simple tale narrated chronologically, mainly from the point of view of one principal character. No literary tricks, but beautifully crafted. ...Read Review