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|title=The Night Flower

|author=Sarah Stovell

|rating=4

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=Fourteen-year-old Miriam Booth is a Romany gypsy from the Newcastle slums who, like the titular waif in [[:Category:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]'s ''Oliver Twist'', is an orphan who lives by her wits but becomes drawn into a ring of house-breaking crime. In 1842 she is caught and sentenced to seven years' transportation to a convict colony in Australia.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906994218</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Colum McCann

What indeed? 'Into the Valley of Death' isn't the novel that will tell us.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024195410X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Tim Willocks~~

~~|title=The Religion~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Historical Fiction~~

|summary=To the Maltese and Sicilians, Mattias Tannhauser is a successfully blooded infantry captain. To Ottoman Turks he's Ibrahim the Red, having been kidnapped from Hungary and raised as a Muslim. Dual nationality comes in handy once he's met the beautiful Contessa Carla de la Penantier and is commissioned to find and return her 12 year old bastard son. As always with these missions there's a catch. The boy (whom Carla hasn't seen since the day of his birth) is rumoured to be on Malta, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks and defended by a tenth of that number, even if you count the Knights Hospitaller. The Turks call themselves the Hounds of Hell, the Knights are known as the Religion, but it's immaterial to Mattias. He just needs to find the lad and get out alive.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581299</amazonuk>~~

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