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|author=Livi Michael

|title=Succession

|rating=4.5

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=15 year old Margaret of Anjou is brought to England to marry King Henry VI, little realising she'll rule in his stead in all but name. Then little 3-year-old Margaret Beaufort marries John de la Pole, son of the Duke of Suffolk. This is the first of three marriages she'll embark on by the time she's 14, one of which will produce a king and all will produce suffering. The War of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty are both waiting in the wings; these are the women who will raise the curtain.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146240</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Shirley McKay

|summary=1727: The Marshalsea prison is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveur, has always stayed one step ahead of it until, ironically, the day of his big win. He's mugged, his winnings are stolen and Tom's hurled into the depths of Sheol itself. Is it as bad as he thought? Worse! Not only does he have to survive the cruel and brutal deprivations but a murderer walks the prison's corridors.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775413</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Octavia E Butler~~

~~|title=Kindred~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Fantasy~~

|summary=Life is a nightmare for black women (and indeed men) back in the southern USA in 1815. For Dana that's just history as she lives over a century away with her husband in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faint, the edges of her modern life blur and she's back in the era that can take more than her liberty. She knows her time travel is somehow linked to plantation owner's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worse.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>~~

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~~|author=Rebecca Hunt~~

~~|title=Everland~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=General Fiction~~

|summary=There have been two expeditions to the Antarctic island of Everland a century apart. The ill-fated 1913 trip of Dinners, Napps and Millet-Bass is primitive by today's standards. The 2012 expedition is better equipped, better prepared and arrives at a better time of year so all bodes well for Decker, Brix and Jess. But despite the differences both expeditions have things in common. Both groups carry secrets, some become obvious but others ''remain behind waiting to become discovered''.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490658</amazonuk>~~

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