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|author= Lauren Johnson
|title= So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary= King Henry VII, whose victory at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 brought the curtain down on the Wars of the Roses, brought peace and stability to a divided country, but his last few years were marked by corruption and repression. When he died in 1509, there were hopes that his eighteen-year-old heir, now Henry VIII, would mark the end of medieval England and the start of a new era. The age of Protestantism and the Renaissance would indeed fulfil these aspirations. Lauren Johnson's book examines in fascinating detail the transitional year between the old and the new.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185985X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Mona Awad
|summary=It's Berlin, and the Nazis are on their way to power, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious in the way it can swallow people – is home to a countless hoard of teenagers, but we focus on just a few, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before now. They call themselves the Blood Brothers, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to another, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls to eat. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, Willi. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= David Thorne
|title= Promises of Blood
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Crime
|summary= I love getting in on the ground floor. Thanks to this very website I was one of the first in this country to read the ''Twilight'' series and was smitten from the start. We'll ignore the films, the books are worth a look! In a completely different genre, but no less a lucky fluke it was through here that I stumbled across [[East of Innocence by David Thorne]] and put in an old-fashioned baggsy for whatever followed. On reading the second of the series [[Nothing Sacred by David Thorne]] I commented that I hoped that in the next outing Connell would see ''him up against, or siding with, some kick-ass-don't-take-it female.'' ''So far his women do tend to be 'birds or victims' ''. I'm pleased to say he's moving in the right direction… women are central to this story one way and another. For the first time he's given us female characters who (despite their plot-device roles, which is varied and not always predictable) are stronger than they look – strong in a number of different ways – he hasn't simply opted for my "kick-ass" option, he's more subtle than that.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395911</amazonuk>
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