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The Square of Sevens
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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