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River Sing Me Home

By Eleanor Shearer - Published 2023

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1st August 1834: slavery is abolished in the British Empire. What happens next? For most slaves, 2nd August is much the same as the ...Read Review

The Last Hours in Paris

By Ruth Druart - Published 2022

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The four-year occupation of France by the Germans in WW2 must be one of the most intensively fictionalised episodes in history. It takes ...Read Review

Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose (UK) / The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York (US)

By Alison Weir - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

Elizabeth of York, whose marriage to Henry VII united the Houses of York and Lancaster after the Wars of the Roses, is not ...Read Review

Traitor in the Ice

By K. J. MAITLAND - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

This is a country house murder mystery, and a very good one. The investigator, Daniel Pursglove, is a flawed genius with an interesting ...Read Review

The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel

By Sarah Steele - Published 2022

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Saga

Set in 1942, during the Second World War in France, this is a super story, engaging and suspenseful. The novel opens in the present ...Read Review

The Memory Box

By Kathryn Hughes - Published 2021

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One has to be very old these days to remember a wartime romance, which is why The Memory Box begins with the narrator’...Read Review

In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court

By Alison Weir - Published 2021

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Short Stories

In the Shadow of Queens is a collection of 13 short stories written to accompany Alison Weir’s series of books called Six Tudor ...Read Review

Whispers of the Runes

By Christina Courtenay - Published 2021

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Time-slip

In 2021, Sara Mattsson, a York silversmith, pulls a seax – a short sword – from an archaeological dig. She reads its runic inscription and is ...Read Review

The Glorious Guinness Girls

By Emily Hourican - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction

Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh are the glorious Guinness girls, members of the dynastic brewing family, and part of the Bright Young Things, a ...Read Review

Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens 6)

By Alison Weir - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction

Chronicling Katharine Parr’s life from her first marriage through to the end of her fourth is a huge accomplishment. Through Katharine’s ...Read Review

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