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|author=Elizabeth Loupas
|title=The Red Lily Crown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Florence 1574: Chiara Nerini only approaches Francesco de' Medici to sell him her late father's alchemical equipment. She and her family are starving and a sale would mean survival. However the soon to be Emperor has other ideas and abducts Chiara to become his assistant in the quest to find the Philosopher's Stone. If he finds it she will go free. If not... Best not think about that option!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571536</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rosemary Goring
|summary=Lizzie and Emily Jarvis can no longer be in the care of their mother as she has become severely ill. She leaves them in the care of her best friend, a cook, but when things go wrong, the girls are sent to the Victorian mills where they are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted and the only thing that keeps them going is counting down the days till they are able to leave.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007578822</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Bullock
|title=The Longest Fight
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Jack Munday is a retired boxer who, even in his prime, wasn’t quite good enough, so now older and wiser Jack hopes to hit the big time as a manager and believes that in Frank he has found a fighter who could get him there. Frank is young, naïve, eager to learn with a lot of talent and Jack discovers him just in time to take him under his wing before any other more established managers could sign him up. The pair make a pretty good team and Frank starts to build up an impressive boxing record and fan base and Jack sees his dreams and hard graft about to reach fruition but things are rarely simple and life, love and shady characters get in the way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434538</amazonuk>
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