Corvus
A Ration Book Victory
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1877. Dressed in her Sunday best, five-year-old Philomena (Queenie) Dooley attends church with her family in Kinsale, Ireland. Shunned as ‘tinkers’, they sit at ...Read Review
Two Women in Rome
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The two women of the title are British expatriates living in Rome; Lottie lives there in the near-present, and Nina lives there in ...Read Review
The Rebel’s Mark (The Jackdaw Mysteries, 5)
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Set in 1598 in Elizabethan London and Ireland, The Rebel’s Mark opens on a ship carrying a Spanish grandee, his soon-to-be-married daughter, and ...Read Review
An Empty Throne (Alexander’s Legacy, 3)
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On the death of Alexander the Great, his ramshackle empire, built entirely on his personal charisma and extraordinary military talent, rapidly unravels. His ...Read Review
A Woman Made of Snow
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This engaging novel begins with a plea from a person unknown and long dead. The speaker urgently begs to be named and acknowledged. ...Read Review
Christmas with the Surplus Girls
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The Surplus Girls were the young women of the 1920s who were destined to remain unmarried because of the million young men lost ...Read Review
The Heretic’s Mark (The Jackdaw Mysteries 4)
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This is the third Jackdaw novel which I have reviewed for the HNS, and which I enjoyed as much as ever. S. W. ...Read Review
The Titanic Sisters
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1912. Sisters Nora and Delia board the Titanic to start their new lives, one as a governess and one as a maid. But when ...Read Review
The Lost Lights of St Kilda
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St Kilda is a tiny archipelago, the remnants of an ancient volcano, in the North Atlantic 40 miles west of the westernmost of the ...Read Review
The Bastille Spy (A Revolution Spy Series)
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1789. Attica Morgan, illegitimate daughter of an English lord and an African princess, erstwhile slave, and now British spy, killer, and a woman with ...Read Review
