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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about Deep in the arrival Tuscan countryside of Frederick Douglass fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative''forest, Douglass's memoir she meets a band of his life as a slavesoldiers who, will believing her to be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a gifted oratormercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on itAlong the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he sees for himself shares with Onoria, in the beginnings of hope that they can lay the horrors ghosts of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalisttheir shared history to rest, Daniel Obefore it'Connells too late... [[Precept: A Novel The Phoenix of Florence by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Deviation by Daniel PeltzLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're For those of you who have read books of life in the company Nazi camps – and of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariacourse, which is what the ruins for those of the Chiesa - you who have not – this can be considered a chapel - have now becomenext step. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceIt begins, after all, a renaissance fresco with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a history which grabs the attention of young bombing raid, and old. Molly uses the history you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to entertain be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the touristsGermans. In Munich, but there's more too it than she knowsstumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, particularly as either official or otherwise. But then the history of next chapter sees her going back into the building is also the history of the Vannini familycamp next to Dachau once more, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumby then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Deviation by Daniel PeltzLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Count of 9 by Lucy WorsleyErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story The Count of Henry VIII9's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce 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 of is a male heir. This time, the hardboiled detective story is told through written in the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary1950s. Mary's hopes It revolves around the detective duo of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce Donald Lam and she is treated terribly by a father under Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the influence theft of the Boleyn factionpriceless Bornean artefacts. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventsHowever, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Lady Mary The Count of 9 by Lucy WorsleyErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Hidden by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisMary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|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 Minette Walters -->
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At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In eighteenth century LondonDevilish in Dorset the population is well, sisters Fitzgeraldbecause of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, Constance and Verity which are changed forever when regarded as heresy as they become entwined with go against the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to strict rules of the London church, but their stores of 2015, food are dwindling and the sisters they know that when they are still waiting - with exhausted they will have no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, choice but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred yearsleave. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality What will they find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in on the outside? Are they the absence of death. only survivors? [[The Parentations Turn of Midnight by Kate MayfieldMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Frieda by David LawsAnnabel Abbs]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicMarried to English Professor Ernest Weekley, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece confines of paper from Hitlermarried life. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, Visiting family in factMunich, she becomes captivated by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot ideas of hot air, revolution and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayfree love. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with Meeting the Nazispenniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and this book opens with a tempestuous relationship, changing the first-person reportage course of one such manboth their lives, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain and unleashing a creative outpouring that he should not sign will change the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud course of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen to himliterature forever. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Frieda by David LawsAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin House of Glass by Snorri KristjanssonSusan Fletcher]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson 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 uncrowned king beginning of the valley; retired Viking farmer twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and rumoured owner the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a large hoard tumour at the age of goldthirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. He is gathering his clan, Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and remembering shared historynewly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[Kin House of Glass by Snorri KristjanssonSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks A Treachery of Spies by Elizabeth ChadwickManda Scott]]===
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''Templar Silks'' When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a great example of historical fiction done well. Itstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's a fictitious account puzzled – whilst the identity of William Marshalthe woman has been erased, it's time clear that she has been killed in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before same way that traitors to the death of King Baldwin to leprosy resistance were executed in 1185World War Two. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of research. In this book she goes woman – and back to fill in the gaps having spent a time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem, as she acknowledges at when the end men and women of the book1940s France were engaged in a desperate, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalembrutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. We know when As more and why he wentmore secrets come to light, we know Inès discovers that there are many in the present who the major power players were, we know when he came back would rather their past stay buried – and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the less. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Templar Silks A Treachery of Spies by Elizabeth ChadwickManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Murmuration by Mitchell & MitchellRobert Lock]]===
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''RevengeMurmuration'' opens with follows the news that Charles Stuart is lives of a host of characters from 1863 to return the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the throne as Charles II birth of EnglandBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, There is returning home a hint of mysticism to her family's farmhousethe tale, excited at with the prospect mesmerising dance of a new King. She arrives homestarlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, however, to find her home ablaze and surrounded drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundthe sea. [[Revenge Murmuration by Mitchell & MitchellRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Mercy Seat by Shahad Al RawiElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is In an isolated Louisiana town, a tale young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi warwindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to illustrate a chair and electrocuted for the displacement felt by rape of a young white girl and her neighbourhood, who later committed suicide. The novel introduces us He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and yet a white woman was never seem going to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has have a happy ending in a problem small town filled with telling a storysmall-minded people. [[The Baghdad Clock Mercy Seat by Shahad Al RawiElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path A Gathering of Ghosts by Katherine ClementsKaren Maitland]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on Witchcraft, the supernatural and the old coffin path will to survive at all costs collide in a story that winds never shies away from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - darker side of how it's a foreboding place filled with evilhuman nature. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthThe land is unhappy, and she's always loved the grand house old spirits want revenge and its isolation, but famine is kindling a recurrence resurgence of strange events begins to unsettle herthe old faith. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house As fear rises, mysteries come it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to light ignore that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretssomething rotten has taken root. And will The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? wind of change. [[The Coffin Path A Gathering of Ghosts by Katherine ClementsKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded Mr Peacock's Possessions by Sheila LlewellynLydia Syson]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him andremote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, after a brawl, is sent family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a military psychiatric hospitalhome. ThereWhen a ship appears, he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him they feel that talking therapies can work with men like David, their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but who is working in high hopes are swiftly dashed when a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomyvulnerable boy disappears. ''Walking Wounded'' follows As both men as 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 try to come to terms with traumatic experiences the island and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIthose who inhabit it. [[Walking Wounded Mr Peacock's Possessions by Sheila LlewellynLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Story Keeper by Heather MorrisAnna Mazzola]]===
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SoAudrey, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitza complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, and see the horror thereneeding, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but be more than what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandeveryone expects of her, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in escapes from the political wing straightjacket of the SSher home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, answerable who only once in his life threw caution to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, wind and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in married way beneath him for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, love. Now a widower and survived to tell the taleremarried, but he also managed has rigorously returned to do something even more daringupholding what is right, what is proper, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the campbastion of doing what is expected. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Story Keeper by Heather MorrisAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Butcher's Daughter by Rachel HalliburtonVictoria Glendinning]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. Benjamin WestThe regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, President of with so many to choose from that the Royal Academy, is reflecting on well never seems to run dry and the past year's scandal involving characters are often those high up in the Provisescircles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, father and daughterhowever, and worries that he handled everything poorlyis totally different. From Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the start world through the book's figurative language is appropriately full eyes of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourablyAgnes Peppin, a young, but now everyone in London was saying he had notpoor woman. It was as if somebody had dropped As a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on woman she can either marry, or join a palette – the more he prodded convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and stirred she is sent to join the memory, the murkier it becamenuns of Shaftesbury Abbey.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Butcher's Daughter by Rachel HalliburtonVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[W Silence in the Desert by John BanksDavid Longridge]]===
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On As the slopes shadow of Mt Hood the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale of love and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in Oregonjoining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryRAF scholarship, Leo, unmoored and struggling to align his beliefs with those of his world in upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardAs the war rages, these men are tested like never before, he's filled with a desire trust, loyalty and love leading to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptdecisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[W Silence in the Desert by John BanksDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Elaine EverestAlison Weir]]===
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''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel When it comes to wartime saga The Woolworths GirlsJane Seymour, and continues the story where the first book left offthird wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Members of the closeSome see her as a scheming marriage-knit community wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertainking's eyes. At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is Others view her as a beacon where family pious and friends can gather for good food God-fearing woman who brought calm and conversation: a way stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to forget the troubles outsideAnne Boleyn. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs Perhaps both sides are falling so close true, to homean extent. We catch up with In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the three friends from third book in the first book: Sarah yearns for peace ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and an end to historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the war, Maisie is desperate for shadow of a child and Freda would love to find romanceformidable predecessor. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Elaine EverestAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours In Gold's Name by Minette WaltersMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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In June 1348 It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Black Death came into Aztec Empire and the country through inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of pale faces who arrived many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years laterwith their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the disease rages through standards of the countrytime. On He was the estate of Develishfinest marksman with his harquebus on the force, Lady Anne Develish took control of but at the future age of twenty three he believed that the people who lived expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the demesne after her husband had ridden off local inhabitants to try and secure a marriage for his daughterChristianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on He'd joined the estate army from a seminary and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband Aztec gold and his entourage, for fear that they any conversion would bring the disease to her peoplenot be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[The Last Hours In Gold's Name by Minette WaltersMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sixteen Trees Industry of the Somme Human Happiness by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)James Hall]]===
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While his grandfather lived the past was an area ''The Industry of certainty for EdvardHuman Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. At aged 4 he'd been taken It is about human beings being able to live with his grandparents, having survived find music and magic in the accident that killed simplest of places. Max and his parentsyounger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's nameHowever, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… their ambition and thathubris soon puts them on a course towards London's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfunderworld. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that They will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation ascend broken and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretstheir lives changed forever. [[The Sixteen Trees Industry of the Somme Human Happiness by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)James Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) The Spirit Photographer by Toby ClementsJon Michael Varese]]===
[[image:5star3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 1470 dawns and the next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to play out. King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, including their lives. [[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) by Toby Clements|Full Review]]
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. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, 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. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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|title=Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)
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|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against.
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|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.
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