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|author=Oliver Greeves

|title=Nelson's Folly

|rating=2.5

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=The story of Admiral Nelson – who never actually achieved that rank, but only ascended to Vice Admiral – is one of the best known in English history. Despite our history teachers' best efforts there are very few battles that most of us can name. Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Hastings…if we live in the north then Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden…it probably takes an interest in maritime things to know of the Battle of the Nile and the siege of Malta…but just about every English person knows about Trafalgar. They may not know where it is and what it was about, but we know (if only from the Square and the Column) that it was a mighty victory and that Nelson was in command.

|isbn=0645023701

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|author=Freya Marske

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well-written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]

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~~|isbn=0857058738~~

~~|title=Equator~~

~~|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Historical Fiction~~

|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of the white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it…

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