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===[[The Industry Phoenix of Human Happiness Florence by James HallPhilip Kazan]]===
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''The Industry Deep in the Tuscan countryside of Human Happiness'' first fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and foremost is home. Alone in the forest, she meets a novel about music. It is about human beings being able band of soldiers who, believing her to find music be a boy train and magic develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the simplest of placesway, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. Max As he digs further and uncovers links to his younger cousin have realised own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their dream of opening a gramophone company. Howevershared history to rest, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards Londonbefore it's underworldtoo late.. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry Phoenix of Human Happiness Florence by James HallPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Deviation by Jon Michael VareseLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
[[image:3star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary 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[[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], 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:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles 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, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]===
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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 ''NarrativeThe Count of 9'', Douglass's memoir of his life as is a slave, will be accompanying hardboiled detective story written in the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour1950s. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam 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 Bertha Cool as he sees for himself they attempt to solve the beginnings theft of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalistpriceless Bornean artefacts. However, Daniel O'Connelltheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Precept: A Novel The Count of 9 by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Hidden by Daniel PeltzMary Chamberlain]]===
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When we first visit Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the Chiesa di Santa Maria wemysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother're in s possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the company of Molly Cavendish who is Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariawhen she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceCatholic Priest, remembers a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention time when he hid something very different. In this story of young love, loss and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristsbetrayal, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one remains to be seen whether a speck of whose descendants is light can diffuse the director darkest shadows of the museum. war… [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Hidden by Daniel PeltzMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Turn of Midnight by Lucy WorsleyMinette Walters]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles At the famous story beginning of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine 1349 there is a glimmer of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces a hope that the much longed for birth ravages of a male heirthe Black Death might be passing. This time, In Devilish in Dorset the story population is told through the eyes well, because of an important but often neglected player - HenryLady Anne's young daughterstrict rules about quarantine, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together which are crushed by regarded as heresy as they go against the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under strict rules of the influence church, but their stores of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years food are dwindling and you can't help they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but root for to leave. What will they find on the little girl stuck in outside? Are they the middle of these tumultuous events. only survivors? [[Lady Mary The Turn of Midnight by Lucy WorsleyMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Frieda by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAnnabel Abbs]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. PluckyMarried to English Professor Ernest Weekley, penniless and in Regency era London aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to confines of married life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, the ideas of revolution and fired by a rogueish sense for adventurefree love. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make Meeting the ultimate decision between wittypenniless writer D.H. Lawrence, pretty she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggarta tempestuous relationship, or changing the madcourse of both their lives, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision..course of literature forever. [[My Lady's Choosing Frieda by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Mayfield Susan Fletcher -->
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In eighteenth 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 beginning of the twentieth century Londonit meant that Clara was confined to her home, sisters Fitzgeraldliving life through a window and the tales her mother, Constance Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and Verity are changed forever when the sounds they become entwined with made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the Fowler family house after her mother's death - and charged with protecting of a mysterious child. Fast forward to tumour at the London age of 2015, thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the sisters are still waiting - with no way offer of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to keep job stocking a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing newly- with true darkness emerging built glass house at Shadowbrook in the absence of deathGloucestershire. [[The Parentations House of Glass by Kate MayfieldSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicFlitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the FringeBellewether'' sketchtells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, where he says he has the Wilde House is being turned into a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded museum due to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, the legacy left by blowing it up and immediately bursting itCaptain Benjamin Wilde. That It is what that paper was to many – told from the indicator of a lot perspective of hot airCharley, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazismuseum curator, and this book opens with who is intrigued by the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign ghost who haunts the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his house and their story was cut off entirely – leaving ; a grand-daughtertale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, EmmaLydia, at Cambridge but under and a cloud of ignominyFrench-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to pick live there. The perspective of the lastbook is continuously shifted between Charley, barest threads of then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the story up and see truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just what did happen as Charley is beginning to himunravel it herself. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Bellewether by David LawsSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin A Treachery of Spies by Snorri KristjanssonManda Scott]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the uncrowned king 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 valley; retired Viking farmer men and rumoured owner women of 1940s France were engaged in a large hoard of gold. He is gathering his clandesperate, a grand reunion after ten years of absencebrutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. It is time for strengthening family bondsAs more and more secrets come to light, feasting, telling tall tales Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and remembering shared history. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Kin A Treachery of Spies by Snorri KristjanssonManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks Murmuration by Elizabeth ChadwickRobert Lock]]===
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''Templar SilksMurmuration'' is follows the lives of a great example host of historical fiction done wellcharacters from 1863 to the present day. It's From a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during risqué comic to a brief spell of calm before fortune teller, we see the death birth of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Elizabeth Chadwick has written There is a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack hint of research. In this book she goes back mysticism to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problemtale, as she acknowledges at with the end mesmerising dance of starlings over the bookpier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, is that virtually nothing is known drawing together disparate stories 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 lives captivated by the lesssea. [[Templar Silks Murmuration by Elizabeth ChadwickRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Mercy Seat by Mitchell & MitchellElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the news that Charles Stuart is to return to concrete wall by the throne as Charles II of Englandevening's dying sun rays. A young womanAt midnight, Ruth Courtney, is returning home he will be dead; strapped to her family's farmhouse, excited at a chair and electrocuted for the prospect rape of a new Kingwhite girl, who later committed suicide. She arrives homeHe is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, however, to find her home ablaze love between a black man and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere a white woman was never going to be foundhave a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[Revenge The Mercy Seat by Mitchell & MitchellElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock A Gathering of Ghosts by Shahad Al RawiKaren Maitland]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale of two friends growing up during Witchcraft, the first supernatural and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism the will to illustrate survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhooddarker side of human nature. The novel introduces us to land is unhappy, the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrativeold faith. Rawi As fear rises, it would seemis increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, has a problem its healing waters run red with telling blood and strangers are blowing in on a storywind of change. [[The Baghdad Clock A Gathering of Ghosts by Shahad Al RawiKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Mr Peacock's Possessions by Katherine ClementsLydia Syson]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on On a remote volcanic island off the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor topcoast of New Zealand, the villagers only speak a family of it in hushed tones - of how it's settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a foreboding place filled with evilhome. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthWhen a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle hervulnerable boy disappears. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed As both settlers and newcomers come together in the housesearch for the child, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secretsabout both the island and those who inhabit it. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Mr Peacock's Possessions by Katherine ClementsLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Story Keeper by Sheila LlewellynAnna Mazzola]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946Audrey, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him complex mix of flights of fancy andseriousness, wanting, after a brawlneeding, is sent to a military psychiatric hospitalbe more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. ThereWhere every action, he every thought, every yearning is treated controlled by Daniel Carterher father, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT widower and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try remarried, he has rigorously returned to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIupholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[Walking Wounded The Story Keeper by Sheila LlewellynAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Butcher's Daughter by Heather MorrisVictoria Glendinning]]===
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So, you arrive in all ignorance at AuschwitzThe Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and see the horror there, machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itpowerful, but what do you do with so many to see choose from that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, well never seems to run dry and 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 characters are often those high up in the political wing circles of the SSpower, answerable or those prepared to do anything to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placethere. This book, however, and trade is totally different. Set in the loot purloined from mid–to–late 1500s we see the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under world through the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatAgnes Peppin, a young, and survived to tell the talepoor woman. As a woman she can either marry, but he also managed to do something even more daringor join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and unexpected – he dared she is sent to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in join the campnuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Butcher's Daughter by Heather MorrisVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Silence in the Desert by Rachel HalliburtonDavid Longridge]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in London in January 1797a tale of love and friendship. Benjamin WestHenri, President of fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Royal AcademyForeign Legion, is reflecting Bill, arriving at Cambridge on the past year's scandal involving the Provisesan RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, father and daughterElisabeth, crossing continents and worries that he handled everything poorlychanging names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. From As the start the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and painterly techniques: 'He had intended love leading to deal with decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them honourably, 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 memory, the murkier it became.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Silence in the Desert by Rachel HalliburtonDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[W Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by John BanksAlison Weir]]===
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On When it comes to Jane Seymour, the slopes third wife of Mt Hood in OregonHenry VIII, an 1000-year old Viking popular opinion is discovered frozen divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage- three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationwrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery Others view her as a pious and God- three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored fearing woman who brought calm and with stability into Henry's life following his world in turmoilturbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. Beginning a journey westwardIn ''The Haunted Queen, he's filled with ' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a desire to wreak vengeance on Queen haunted by the individuals he finds morally corruptshadow of a formidable predecessor. [[W Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by John BanksAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths In Gold's Name by Elaine EverestMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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''Christmas at Woolworths'' is It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, Aztec Empire and continues the story where inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the first book left offpale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Members of Some thought the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale highSpaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, even though particularly by the standards of the future is uncertaintime. At He was the heart of finest marksman with his harquebus on the neighbourhoodforce, but at the home age of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget convert the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when local inhabitants to Christianity from the bombs are falling so close to homelocal religions which required human sacrifices. We catch up with He'd joined the three friends army from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace a seminary and an end whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the war, Maisie is desperate for a child Aztec gold and Freda that any conversion would love to find romancenot be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths In Gold's Name by Elaine EverestMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours Industry of Human Happiness by Minette WaltersJames Hall]]===
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In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port ''The Industry of Melcombe in DorsetHuman Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd It is about human beings being able to find basic nearly seven hundred years later, music and magic in the disease rages through the countrysimplest of places. On the estate Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of Develishopening a gramophone company. However, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try their ambition and secure hubris soon puts them on a marriage for his daughtercourse towards London's underworld. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate They will ascend broken and when Lady Anne realised the virulence 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 peopletheir lives changed forever. [[The Last Hours Industry of Human Happiness by Minette WaltersJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Spirit Photographer by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Jon Michael Varese]]===
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While his grandfather lived Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the past was an area real-life father of certainty for Edvardspirit photography, William H. Mumler. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his grandparentsown photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, having survived 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 accident loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that killed his parentsit seems to appear hazily in the background. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different Looking back from what he'd believed… his mothertoday's birthplacehigh-tech perspective, his motherit's namehard to see how anyone could have been fooled, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined but suffering people in desperate situations often want to solve believe; the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretssame goes for séances. [[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Spirit Photographer by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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