Charlotte Wightwick
The Familiars
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The Familiars is set in 17th-century Lancashire. It tells the story of the trial of the Pendle witches from the point of view ...Read Review
The Redeemed: The West Country Trilogy
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The Redeemed follows the lives of two main characters during and after World War I. Leo Sercombe starts the book as a ship’...Read Review
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
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Devices and Desires explores the life of Bess of Hardwick and of her great building projects, especially the still-extant Hardwick Hall. It is ...Read Review
Blood’s Revolution (Holcroft Blood 2)
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Set in the turbulent years of the 1680s, Blood’s Revolution follows Holcroft Blood, a brilliant gunnery officer in His Majesty’s Ordnance, ...Read Review
The Monastery Murders (A Stanton and Barling Mystery)
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The Monastery Murders is the second of E.M. Powell’s mysteries set in the late 12th century and featuring the crime-fighting duo ...Read Review
The Tudor Crown
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Set in the turbulent years of the 1470s and 1480s, The Tudor Crown tells of the fight for the crown which led to ...Read Review
Queen of the North
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Queen of the North tells the story of Elizabeth Mortimer, wife of Henry Percy (known to history – and Shakespeare fans – as Hotspur). Set ...Read Review
Mr Peacock’s Possessions
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In the late 19th century, Oceania—a vast expanse of sea, dotted with the occasional landmass, from the huge continent of Australia through ...Read Review
Circe
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Madeline Miller returns to the Homeric epics for the inspiration for her second novel, Circe. While the first, The Song of Achilles, focuses ...Read Review
Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
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Coromandel (a corruption of the Tamil Cholamandalam, after the Chola kings who ruled southern India for centuries) was the name given by European ...Read Review
