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River Sing Me Home
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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