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Such Sweet Sorrow
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Marianne is happy with her husband, naval officer Neil, and daughter, Libby, until the Second World War intervenes. Neil is often away on ...Read Review
The Trojan War : A New History
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In this most interesting book, Barry Strauss, an expert in ancient military history, places Homer’s The Iliad in its historical, cultural, ...Read Review
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
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I would not call myself a Heyer fan as such, but a book on Regency life made an enjoyable prospect for a review. ...Read Review
Siege of Heaven
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Harper writes about that charade of religious fervour, the First Crusade of 1096-98, in all its ghastly violence and hypocrisy. The reader is ...Read Review
Sunshine and Shadows
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When her impoverished family is forced from their home, young Daisy Kildare is sent from Ireland to Liverpool to be companion to ...Read Review
An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War
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This is a well-documented account of the Battle of Waterloo from the British army’s point of view. The social events surrounding and ...Read Review
Cotillion
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This story, by the woman credited with establishing the Regency romance subgenre, was originally published in 1953. Young Kitty Charing has been brought up ...Read Review
Forgotten Dreams
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Even though Lottie is only six years old, she has no knowledge of her early life, her memory apparently erased by an accident. ...Read Review
Sing For Your Supper
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Tudor Morgan refuses to go down the mine; his ambition is to make a name as a singer. When he and Karen and ...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
