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Hirschfeld’s Friends

By Michael Dean - Published 2010

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Hans-Max Hirschfeld is Secretary General for Trade and Industry in the Netherlands in 1941, while it is occupied by the Nazis despite their declaration ...Read Review

The Promise of Rain

By Donna Milner - Published 2010

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Literary

This is a moving novel about family, love and war. It is split between the viewpoint of an 11-year-old girl, Ethie, in 1962, trying ...Read Review

The King’s Daughter

By Sandra Worth - Published 2008

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Biographical Fiction

Sandra Worth deftly illuminates the violent and messy political complexities of 15th-century England through the eyes of Elizabeth of York, the wife of ...Read Review