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===[[Silence in the Desert The Turn of Midnight by David LongridgeMinette Walters]]===
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As At the shadow beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the Second World War descends upon ravages of the planet, four people are explored in a tale of love and friendshipBlack Death might be passing. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition In Devilish in joining Dorset the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leopopulation is well, struggling to align his beliefs with those because of his upbringingLady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names which are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the war rageschurch, these men but their stores of food are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty dwindling and love leading they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themleave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[Silence in the Desert The Turn of Midnight by David LongridgeMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Frieda by Alison WeirAnnabel Abbs]]===
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When it comes Married to Jane SeymourEnglish Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the third wife confines of Henry VIII, popular opinion is dividedmarried life. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious Visiting family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in Munich, she becomes captivated by the king's eyesideas of revolution and free love. Others view her as Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a pious passionate affair and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queena tempestuous relationship,'' changing the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' seriescourse of both their lives, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of unleashing a Queen haunted by creative outpouring that will change the shadow course of a formidable predecessorliterature forever. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Frieda by Alison WeirAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name House of Glass by Marcus DalrympleSusan Fletcher]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the end beginning of the Aztec Empire twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlerstales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Some thought Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the Spaniards were godssounds they made on breaking. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards of the timeCharlotte would ''list bones like continents''. He was Clara would only escape the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition thirty nine - and in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesher wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. He'd joined Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the army from offer of a job stocking a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torturenewly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[In Gold's Name House of Glass by Marcus DalrympleSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''The Industry of Human HappinessBellewether'' first tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and foremost all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a novel about musicmuseum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in told from the simplest perspective of places. Max Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening story; a gramophone company. Howevertale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworldFrench-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. They will ascend broken The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and their lives changed foreverJean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[The Industry of Human Happiness Bellewether by James HallSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer A Treachery of Spies by Jon Michael VareseManda Scott]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an [[image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background:4star. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooledjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''NarrativeMurmuration'', Douglass's memoir follows the lives of a host of his life as characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a slavefortune teller, will be accompanying we see the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tourbirth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who There is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself hint of mysticism to the beginnings of tale, with the horrors mesmerising dance of starlings over the potato famine and meets and befriends pier acting as an anchor throughout the famous Irish nationalistdistinct narratives here, Daniel O'Connelldrawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Precept: A Novel Murmuration by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mercy Seat by Daniel PeltzElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the company shadow of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what window bars cast onto the ruins of concrete wall by the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomeevening's dying sun rays. Crowds flock At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs chair and electrocuted for the attention rape of young and olda white girl, who later committed suicide. Molly uses the history He is resigned to entertain the tourists, but there's more too his fate; it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyfutile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, who helped love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museuma small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mercy Seat by Daniel PeltzElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary A Gathering of Ghosts by Lucy WorsleyKaren Maitland]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles Witchcraft, the supernatural and the famous will to survive at all costs collide in a story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce that never shies away from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth darker side of a male heirhuman nature. This time, the story The land is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterunhappy, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce old spirits want revenge and she famine is treated terribly by kindling a father under the influence resurgence of the Boleyn factionold faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck strangers are blowing in the middle on a wind of these tumultuous eventschange. [[Lady Mary A Gathering of Ghosts by Lucy WorsleyKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[My LadyMr Peacock's Choosing Possessions by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisLydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starOn a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[:Category:Historical FictionMr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield Mazolla -->
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In eighteenth century LondonAudrey, sisters Fitzgeralda complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London be more than what everyone expects of 2015her, and escapes from the sisters are still waiting - with no way straightjacket of knowing if the boy her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is alive or dead. Far awaycontrolled by her father, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal only once in his life, but also forces them threw caution to keep a secret the wind and married way beneath him for two hundred yearslove. As those years pass byNow a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence bastion of deathdoing what is expected. [[The Parentations Story Keeper by Kate MayfieldAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Butcher's Daughter by David LawsVictoria Glendinning]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a piece wealth of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagintrigue, in fact, by blowing it up plots and immediately bursting itmachinations. That is what The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that paper was the well never seems to many – run dry and the characters are often those high up in the indicator circles of a lot of hot airpower, and only leading or those prepared to do anything to an unwelcome noiseget there. This book, when WW2 actually struck anywayhowever, is totally different. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the Nazis, and this book opens with world through the first-person reportage eyes of one such manAgnes Peppin, a young, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awaypoor woman. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving As a grand-daughter, Emmawoman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominyall, and she is sent to pick join the last, barest threads nuns of the story up and see just what did happen to himShaftesbury Abbey. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Butcher's Daughter by David LawsVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Silence in the Desert by Snorri KristjanssonDavid Longridge]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is As the uncrowned king shadow of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a large hoard tale of goldlove and friendship. He is gathering his clanHenri, fulfilling a grand reunion after ten years family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of absencehis upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. It is time for strengthening family bondsAs the war rages, these men are tested like never before, feastingwith trust, telling tall tales loyalty and remembering shared historylove leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Kin Silence in the Desert by Snorri KristjanssonDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Elizabeth ChadwickAlison Weir]]===
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''Templar Silks'' When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a great example of historical fiction done well. Itscheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a fictitious account of William Marshalpious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin life following his turbulent marriage to leprosy in 1185Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of researchPerhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In this ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem''Six Tudor Queens'' series, as she acknowledges at author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the end bones of a Queen haunted by the book, is that virtually nothing is known shadow of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the lessa formidable predecessor. [[Templar Silks Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Elizabeth ChadwickAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge In Gold's Name by Mitchell & MitchellMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the news that Charles Stuart is inhabitants were to return some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the throne as Charles II of EnglandSpaniards were gods. A young womanAntonio Vega was no god, Ruth Courtneybut he was essentially a decent man, is returning home to her family's farmhouseparticularly by the standards of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, excited but at the prospect age of a new Kingtwenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. She arrives home, howeverHe'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to find her home ablaze appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and surrounded minds but by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundthreats and torture. [[Revenge In Gold's Name by Mitchell & MitchellMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Industry of Human Happiness by Shahad Al RawiJames Hall]]===
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''The Baghdad ClockIndustry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi warnovel about music. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism It is about human beings being able to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl find music and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to magic in the various characters surrounding the protagonistsimplest of places. They are full Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrativeopening a gramophone company. RawiHowever, it would seem, has their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a problem with telling a storycourse towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Baghdad Clock Industry of Human Happiness by Shahad Al RawiJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Spirit Photographer by Katherine ClementsJon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image:4of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Historical FictionFull Review]]
Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in BurmaIreland. On And even more excited that his return in 1946Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', he finds a return to civilian Douglass's memoir of his life quite beyond him and, after as a brawlslave, is sent to a military psychiatric hospitalwill be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. There, he Nathan is treated deeply impressed by Daniel CarterDouglass, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as ECT and lobotomyFrederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan''Walking Wounded'' follows both men s eyes as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and find a place in a world moving on from WWIImeets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Walking Wounded Precept: A Novel by Sheila LlewellynMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Heather MorrisDaniel Peltz]]===
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So, you arrive When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in all ignorance the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itMuseo di Santa Maria, but which is what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to ruins of the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Do you dare Crowds flock to stick your neck out and get see its centrepiece, a job that means you're actually renaissance fresco with a Jew working in history which grabs the political wing attention of young and old. Molly uses the SS, answerable history to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building entertain the placetourists, but there's more too it than she knows, and trade particularly as the loot purloined from history of the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under building is also the eyes history of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatVannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and survived to tell one of whose descendants is the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in director of the campmuseum. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Heather MorrisDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Lady Mary by Rachel HalliburtonLucy Worsley]]===
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Rachel Halliburton''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin Westlove affair with Anne Boleyn, President his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the Royal Academymuch longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is reflecting on told through the past yeareyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's scandal involving the Provises, father and young daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyMary. From the start the bookMary's figurative language is appropriately full hopes of colour her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped she is treated terribly by a small amount father under the influence of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and stirred you can't help but root for the memory, little girl stuck in the murkier it becamemiddle of these tumultuous events.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Lady Mary by Rachel HalliburtonLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[W My Lady's Choosing by John BanksKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
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On the slopes You are a lass of Mt Hood twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Regency era London the race is discovered frozen on to find a suitable suitor - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationor else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Josh Kinninger is inspired Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angrymad, unmoored bad and with his world in turmoilterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. Beginning a journey westwardWith orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, heit's filled with a desire clear this isn't going to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptbe an easy decision... [[W My Lady's Choosing by John BanksKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]
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