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Remember, Remember

By Elle Machray - Published 2024

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This debut novel is rooted in a trial in 1772, in which it was ruled that an enslaved Black man living in England could ...Read Review

The Water Child

By Mathew West - Published 2023

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In a Portuguese port in the 1750s, nineteen-year-old Cecilia is waiting for her husband, a newly commissioned captain, to return with his ship ...Read Review

The Runaway Bride

By Felicity York - Published 2023

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Romance

We first meet the Turner family when our protagonist’s father admires the fruits of his labours as he arrives at his stately ...Read Review

The Burnings

By Naomi Kelsey - Published 2023

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Naomi Kelsey’s gripping debut novel is based on the 16th-century North Berwick Witch Trials and centres around two real historical figures: Geillis ...Read Review