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|authortitle=Barry UnsworthThe Very Nearly Honourable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot|titleauthor=The Quality of MercyCaroline Carlson|rating=45 |genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary='The Quality Take one Victorian finishing school for delicate ladies, full of Mercy' picks up classes on how to waltz and swoon gracefully (not necessarily at the story of the author's Booker Prize-winning 'Sacred Hunger' although if same time), perform a water ballet and use a bow and arrow without perspiring. If you haven't read the first bookre feeling very brave, you woncould even (shudder) stir in a smattering (just a tiny amount, for pity't be greatly disadvantaged as s sake!) of the relevant story lines are explainedfine art of embroidering Improving Sayings on a sampler. What you might miss out on is some of the feeling for Add a few bunch of the main charactersunruly, most notably the Irish fiddlerunscrupulous and unwashed pirates (except, Sullivan who, when this book picks up in spring 1767, has just escaped from prison where the remaining shipmates of the slave shipcourse, for the dashingly handsome and gallant ones: they'Liverpool Merchant' await their trial of piracyre generally quite hygienic). Slavery and abolition thereof remains Chuck in a central theme substantial dollop of this sequel, but the book draws some poignant similarities with those in bondage due to poverty, magic and stand well back—the result is an action-packed and particularly those working in wondrously silly adventure on the coal mines of County Durhamhigh seas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919371240857078275</amazonuk>
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