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==Historical fiction==
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|author=Michael David Lukas
|title=The Oracle of Stamboul
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The book is set in the Ottoman Empire and the reader is given a potted history of those times,. Wars, troops, Rome and the Byzantines all get a passing mention ... and a baby called Eleonora is born. Sadly, her mother does not make it and it's left to her father to bring her up. He struggles and decides the best thing for himself, but more importantly, for his young daughter, is to enter into a marriage of convenience with a member of his extended family. Domestic life rumbles along, but underneath the surface, things are brewing ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755377702</amazonuk>
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|author=Molly Carr