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|author=Diane Pearson
|title=Csardas
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Hungarian Jewish banker Zsigmond Ferenc rules his family with an iron fist. As a proud Hungarian he feels that he needs to maintain standards. His wife, Marta secretly gambles behind his back, his sparkling younger daughter Eva takes the heart of every man she meets (including his own) and his two sons need leadership and guidance. Then there's his eldest child, Amale who fears she will never fall in love which may be a disadvantage as he looks around for a fitting match. Although whatever their preoccupations may be at the moment everything in Hungary (and indeed Europe) is about to change; history's timings can be cruel and the advent of World War I is perhaps one of its cruellest. To say the Austro-Hungarian Empire won't be the same again is an understatement.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857512</amazonuk>
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|author=Martin Davies
|summary=Seventeen years after he left home to fight in the Trojan War (that's also seven years after it had finished!) Ulysses returns home. A lot has changed; his wife is at home with eleven men for a start! Penelope is being held under virtual house arrest by eleven strangers. How will Ulysses manage to free her and regain his hearth with only his son and a pig herd to help? Gods only knows! Meanwhile Penelope is visited by another man. His name's Homer and he wants to write an epic poem. Not a good time Homer, not a good time at all!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163316</amazonuk>
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