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The Boleyn Secret
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This expansive novel, with its extraordinary breadth of knowledge and scrupulous attention to detail, tells the story of a sidelined Tudor personage, Katherine ...Read Review
The Midnight Guests
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The Midnight Guests begins at 2pm on 1 May 1926 with the opening of the upmarket Hotel Artemis in Mayfair, London. The hotel was created ...Read Review
The Child at the Window
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Sisters Con and Jo live in Clapham in 1937. Con is a secretary and Jo a writer of romantic fiction, and their combined earnings ...Read Review
The Glass Key
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This novel belongs to that ever-popular strand of historical fiction in which family secrets reverberate across generations, the past pressing insistently upon the ...Read Review
The Sea Stone Sisters
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The Sea Stone Sisters opens with a violent act taking place around 2800 BC. An unnamed man returns from fishing to find his four ...Read Review
Ripples Through Time
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Christina Courtenay has honed her approach to dual-time romantic historical fiction with skill, making her novels in this style among the best in ...Read Review
Fireflies in Winter
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In the late 18th century, Jamaican Maroons (descendants from indigenous Arawakan and former Black slaves) were forced to leave the island in the 1790...Read Review
The Cardinal
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The Cardinal is Alison Weir’s most impressive novel to date. This reviewer has read them all. In it, Weir explores Cardinal Wolsey’...Read Review
The Lost Baker of Vienna
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Kurtzman’s novel, inspired by her own mother, a Holocaust survivor, follows the fictional Rosenzweigs’ path through WWII from Vilna, Kovno, Stutthof, Dachau, ...Read Review
The Heirloom
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Quaint little Puckridge Cottage has been home to wise women for generations. Or perhaps witches rather than wise women, as their skills often ...Read Review
