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Whispers of the Runes
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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
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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)
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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
The Drowned City
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This novel, set in 1606, opens with an excellent description of the Bristol tsunami of that year, in which a body of a woman ...Read Review
The Runes of Destiny
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The Runes of Destiny is the follow-up to Christina Courtenay’s magical Echoes of the Runes. Although the books share a location and ...Read Review
Echoes of the Runes
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Christina Courtenay is an award-winning writer of historical romance, and Echoes of the Runes is her first book with Headline. Historian Mia Maddox ...Read Review
Code Name Hélène
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The thrilling, astoundingly incredible World War II exploits of the vivacious journalist and socialite Nancy Wake are evocatively portrayed in this ambitiously written ...Read Review
Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen (UK) / Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen (US)
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This is a superb novel about a young queen who was the victim of powerful and ambitious persons around her. Neglected by her ...Read Review
Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4
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Anna of Kleve (or Anne of Cleves as she is known to most English readers) is the least known of Henry VIII’s ...Read Review
A Gathering of Ghosts
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This novel is set in 1316 near Dartmoor and uses three narrators. One is the Prioress Johanne of the Sisters of the Knights of ...Read Review