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Honey Brown is Married
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Dreadful title, very enjoyable book. The novel follows the fortunes of Honey Brown (previously, abandoned orphan Annie) after she has left her career ...Read Review
The Water Doctor’s Daughters
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This is true crime and also a Victorian melodrama which outdoes any fictional Victorian melodrama I have ever read. It centres on the ...Read Review
An Invisible Murder
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This is the fourth novel in the series featuring the gifted cook and amateur detective, Jenny Starling. She is the beautiful and curvy ...Read Review
Hurricane Hole
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Hurricane Hole is a WW2 thriller set in the Bahamas. Since this was not a very active theatre of war, much of the ...Read Review
Dark Passage
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During the 1890s Depression in Australia, Nicola Redmond’s father commits suicide, unable to face financial ruin, leaving her and her mother to ...Read Review
The Annals of Sherlock Holmes
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This is Paul Gilbert’s third book of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, consisting of three long short stories (or novellas as he terms them) ...Read Review
For the Love of Catherine
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Crossing on the Titanic to see her sister on the New York stage, a young mother, Mair (the heroine of the story); her ...Read Review
Catherine of Deepdale
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In 1946, Catherine Jameson leaves Southampton for the Shetland Isles, home of her new husband, Robbie, anticipating an idyllic island life. Despite discovering his ...Read Review
The Sea Inside His Head
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Set in the Kent coalfields during the miners’ strike of 1984, this debut novel explores the dilemmas of a miner, Bradley, who finds himself ...Read Review
England’s Janissary
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Disillusioned by his experiences in the First World War, Kevin Flynn returns to his home in Ireland and takes a post in the ...Read Review