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The Square of Sevens

By Laura Shepherd-Robinson - Published 2023

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A girl called Red writes a memoir. It begins in 1730 with her hard, nomadic life as the child of a gypsy fortune teller. ...Read Review

He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, 2)

By Shelley Parker-Chan - Published 2023

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Historical Fantasy

Parker-Chan completes her award-winning historical fantasy epic begun in She Who Became the Sun, returning to its fascinating blend of medieval Chinese history, ...Read Review

The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles)

By Kate Mosse - Published 2023

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AdventureNautical

The real-life story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the lesbian duo whose pirate ship briefly terrorised the Caribbean in the 18th century, ...Read Review

Homecoming

By Kate Morton - Published 2023

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Large old houses, families haunted by history, and suspenseful multi-stranded plots that reveal shocking truths: these are Kate Morton hallmarks, and nobody writes ...Read Review

The Maiden

By Kate Foster - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

In 1679, Lady Christian Nimmo stabbed her lover, Lord James Forrester, to death and was sentenced to ‘kiss the Maiden’, the guillotine which rose ...Read Review

Stone Blind

By Natalie Haynes - Published 2022

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Most of us know something about the ancient Greek myth of Perseus slaying Medusa and making off with her head. The gaze of ...Read Review

The Midwife

By Tricia Cresswell - Published 2022

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In 1838, a woman is discovered close to death on the Northumberland moorland. Joanna (later known as Mrs. Sharp) has no memory of her ...Read Review

Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter

By Lizzie Pook - Published 2022

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1886. The Brightwell family—two brothers, Willem and Charles, with their wives, and Charles’s two children, Thomas and ten-year-old Eliza—arrive from England ...Read Review

She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor)

By Shelley Parker-Chan - Published 2021

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Historical Fantasy

Shelley Parker-Chan’s debut is a historical fantasy of medieval China which reimagines the birth of the Ming dynasty. In the era of ...Read Review

Daughters of Night

By Laura Shepherd-Robinson - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s first novel Blood and Sugar won the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award and the Historical Writers’ Association’s Debut Crown, ...Read Review