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The Housekeepers
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This book might have been more appropriately titled “The Housekeepers’ Revenge.” It is an historical fantasy, in the sense that the servant classes ...Read Review
The Air Raid Book Club
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Lyons draws on her experience as a bookseller and her love of reading in this story set in her hometown area of South ...Read Review
Promises of the Runes
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Courtenay is without a doubt the Queen of Viking Romance. Along with several other time-slip romances, Courtenay has now written five books in ...Read Review
The Birdcage Library
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If you like Gothic novels, this is a feast. There are no paranormal elements (except a brief hint in the epilogue), but we ...Read Review
Coronation Year
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Canadian author Jennifer Robson sets her newest novel in postwar Britain. It is 1953, Elizabeth II’s coronation year. As in Robson’s best-selling ...Read Review
The Woman on the Bridge
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Dublin, Ireland, 1920: a stone crashes through the window of the shop where Winnie O’Leary works. Terror grips the poor girl as she ...Read Review
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown (UK) / The King’s Pleasure: A Novel of Henry VIII (US)
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Alison Weir has already told this famous story from the viewpoint of each of the six wives of Henry VIII. Now here is ...Read Review
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