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Trust: The Anatomy of a Marriage
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Bedfordshire, 1649: This portrait of a marriage is based on the true story of Dorothy Osborne, wife of Sir William Temple, employer of a ...Read Review
Becoming St. Patrick: His Slavery
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Hail Glorious St. Patrick, dear saint of our Isle’ is the opening line of the Irish hymn to their patron saint. This excellently ...Read Review
Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia
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Delivery of a dispatch leads to the Romanovs’ executions. The messenger is Anna Sokolova, a young woman whose brother died in a demonstration ...Read Review
Iron Will: Brunel’s Battle to Become the Greatest Engineer of the Victorian Age
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a name which conjures up the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Great Western Railway and its London terminus, Paddington Station, ...Read Review
The Merest Loss
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The Merest Loss is a novel set in Victorian England about Harriet Howard, mistress of the Emperor Louis Napoleon III. What a cracking ...Read Review
The Titans of the Pacific: A Historical Thriller
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Titans of the Pacific tells of the political and economic tribulations in Peru during the early 1930s. It is a novel of the ...Read Review
That Deplorable Boy
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This is the second volume in the Miremont trilogy, set in Belle Époque France, which began with The Second Footman. Max Fabien is ...Read Review
The Wolf of Dalriada
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Confused by the frequent changes of location, date and point of view, it took some time for me to come to grips with ...Read Review
The Fair Maid of Kent
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Joan of Kent is a fascinating historical figure. Newark’s novel covers the early part of her life. Joan is cousin to the ...Read Review
Children of the Mists
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Everyone assumes childhood sweethearts Raffaella and Antonio will marry one day, but their hopes are dashed when Raffaella’s father dies and Orlando, ...Read Review