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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]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. PluckyWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, penniless and in Regency era London determined to identify the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey youmysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alones possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and fired by a rogueish sense for adventureare swiftly forced to confront their pasts. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make Revisiting their time on the ultimate decision between wittyChannel Islands during World War II, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesomeDora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggartJoe, or the mada Catholic Priest, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenremembers a time when he hid something very different. With orphansIn this story of love, werewolves, long lost lovers loss and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the waybetrayal, it's clear this isn't going remains to be an easy decision... seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[My Lady's Choosing The Hidden by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisMary Chamberlain|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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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Templar SilksBellewether'' is a great example tells the fascinating tale of historical fiction done wellthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during In the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before present tense aspects, the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written Wilde House is being turned into a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back museum due to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his lifelegacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Her main problem, as she acknowledges at It is told from the end perspective of Charley, the bookmuseum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that virtually nothing is known of Marshalends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's time in Jerusalem. We know when sister, Lydia, and why he wenta French-Canadian lieutenant, we know Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the major power players werebook is continuously shifted between Charley, we know when he came back then Lydia and that is Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about it. So understandablywhat was happening during this chaotic time in history, this book just as Charley is probably more fiction than history but beginning to unravel it is brilliantly written none the lessherself. [[Templar Silks Bellewether by Elizabeth ChadwickSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge A Treachery of Spies by Mitchell & MitchellManda Scott]]===
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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'Revenge'' opens with s clear that she has been killed in the news same way that Charles Stuart is to return traitors to the throne as Charles II resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of England. A young this woman, Ruth Courtney, is returning home – and back to her family's farmhouse, excited at a time when the prospect men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a new Kingdesperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. She arrives homeAs more and more secrets come to light, however, to find her home ablaze Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere many who would kill to be found. keep secrets safe… [[Revenge A Treachery of Spies by Mitchell & MitchellManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Murmuration by Shahad Al RawiRobert Lock]]===
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''The Baghdad ClockMurmuration'' is follows the lives of a tale host of two friends growing up during characters from 1863 to the first and second Iraqi warpresent day. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism From a risqué comic to illustrate a fortune teller, we see the displacement felt by a young girl birth of Blackpool and her neighbourhoodits steadily fading glamour. The novel introduces us There is a hint of mysticism to the various characters surrounding tale, with the protagonist. They are full mesmerising dance of life and yet never seem to add anything to starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the central narrative. Rawidistinct narratives here, it would seem, has a problem with telling a storydrawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[The Baghdad Clock Murmuration by Shahad Al RawiRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Mercy Seat by Katherine ClementsElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the old coffin path that winds from shadow of the village to window bars cast onto the moor top, concrete wall by the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how itevening's a foreboding place filled with evildying sun rays. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthAt midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and she's always loved electrocuted for the grand house rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through white woman was never going to have a shadowy presence sensed happy ending in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing longa small town filled with small-buried secretsminded people. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Mercy Seat by Katherine ClementsElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded A Gathering of Ghosts by Sheila LlewellynKaren Maitland]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 Witchcraft, the supernatural and sent the will to fight survive at all costs collide in Burmaa story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. On his return in 1946The land is unhappy, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him the old spirits want revenge and, after famine is kindling a brawlresurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is sent increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to a military psychiatric hospitalignore that something rotten has taken root. There, he The sacred well is treated by Daniel Cartertainted, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work its healing waters run red with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT blood and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place strangers are blowing in on a world moving on from WWIIwind of change. [[Walking Wounded A Gathering of Ghosts by Sheila LlewellynKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Mr Peacock's Possessions by Heather MorrisLydia Syson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see On a remote volcanic island off the horror therecoast of New Zealand, and immediately swear a family of settlers struggle to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itmake such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, but what do you do to see they feel that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out their wishes have been granted and get their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a job that means you're actually a Jew working vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the political wing of search for the SSchild, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placethey uncover far, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food far more than they smuggle in were looking for you, under – discovering dark secrets about both the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, island and survived to tell 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 the campthose who inhabit it. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Mr Peacock's Possessions by Heather MorrisLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Story Keeper by Rachel HalliburtonAnna Mazzola]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin WestAudrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, President to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the Royal Academystraightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, controlled by her father and daughter, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and worries that he handled everything poorlymarried way beneath him for love. From the start the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour Now a widower and painterly techniques: 'He had intended remarried, he has rigorously returned to deal with them honourablyupholding what is right, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memorywhat is proper, the murkier it becamebastion of doing what is expected.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Story Keeper by Rachel HalliburtonAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Butcher's Daughter by John BanksVictoria Glendinning]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
On The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the slopes well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of Mt Hood in Oregonpower, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationtotally different. Josh Kinninger is inspired by Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryeyes of Agnes Peppin, unmoored and with his world in turmoila young, poor woman. Beginning As a journey westwardwoman she can either marry, he's filled with or join a desire convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to wreak vengeance on join the individuals he finds morally corruptnuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[W The Butcher's Daughter by John BanksVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths Silence in the Desert by Elaine EverestDavid Longridge]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''Christmas at Woolworths'' is As the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, and continues shadow of the story where Second World War descends upon the first book left off. Members planet, four people are explored in a tale of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together love and keep morale highfriendship. Henri, even though fulfilling a family tradition in joining the future is uncertain. At the heart Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of the neighbourhoodhis upbringing, and Elisabeth, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family crossing continents and friends can gather for good food changing names are all brought together by strife and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outsideturmoil. Spirits remain high; even when As the bombs war rages, these men are falling so close to home. We catch up tested like never before, with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the wartrust, Maisie is desperate for a child loyalty and Freda would love leading to find romancedecisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths Silence in the Desert by Elaine EverestDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Last Hours Haunted Queen by Minette WaltersAlison Weir]]===
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In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through When it comes to Jane Seymour, the port third wife of Melcombe Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in Dorsetthe king's eyes. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which weOthers view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry'd find basic nearly seven hundred years laters life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, the disease rages through the countryto an extent. On the estate of DevelishIn ''The Haunted Queen, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of '' the people who lived third book in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the estate and when Lady Anne realised bones of a Queen haunted by the virulence shadow of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her peoplea formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Last Hours Haunted Queen by Minette WaltersAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme In Gold's Name by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Marcus Dalrymple]]===
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While his grandfather lived It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the past Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was an area no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards of certainty for Edvardthe time. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live He was the finest marksman with his grandparentsharquebus on the force, having survived but at the accident age of twenty three he believed that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to light showing Edvard his family history is different Christianity from what hethe local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd believed… his motherjoined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn's birthplacet call him naive, his motherhe's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and d failed to appreciate that's without looking more deeply into establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination Aztec gold and that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretstorture. [[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme In Gold's Name by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Marcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) The Industry of Human Happiness by Toby ClementsJames Hall]]===
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1470 dawns ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the next chapters of the War simplest of the Roses are ready to play out. King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurkingplaces. Meanwhile Katherine Max and Thomas also his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their world turned upside down when that ledger ambition and hubris soon puts them on a chance comment threaten all they have, including course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their liveschanged forever. [[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) The Industry of Human Happiness by Toby ClementsJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus) Spirit Photographer by P F ChisholmJon Michael Varese]]===
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1592: Sir Robert Carey flees Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the strictures life story of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden the real-life father of the West March spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become now owns his worldown photography studio in Boston. It's now his job Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to bring law be doing a service to the lawlessbereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has involves getting hold of an affinity and a heritage image of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about loved one and superimposing it on the job is its proximity negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the woman he loves but he doesnbackground. Looking back from today't know what hes high-tech perspective, it'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed s hard to be on his side are plotting against him see how anyone could have been fooled, but they don't realise what they're up againstsuffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus) Spirit Photographer by P F ChisholmJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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