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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Phoenix of Florence by Alison WeirPhilip Kazan]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, Deep in the third wife Tuscan countryside of Henry VIIIfifteenth century Italy, popular opinion is divided. Some see Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour and home. Alone in the king's eyes. Others view forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her as to be a pious boy train and God-fearing woman who brought calm develop her – and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to Anne Boleynavoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Perhaps both sides are trueAlong the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to an extentFlorence sees him investigating two brutal murders. In ''The Haunted QueenAs he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history,'' Celavini must revisit the third book past he shares with Onoria, in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on hope that they can lay the bones ghosts of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessortheir shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Phoenix of Florence by Alison WeirPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[In GoldDeviation by Luce d's Name by Marcus DalrympleEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series For those of mystical events foreshadowed the end you who have read books of life in the Aztec Empire Nazi camps – and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces of course, for those of you who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlershave not – this can be considered a next step. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godIt begins, after all, but he was essentially with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a decent manbombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, particularly as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the standards of the timeGermans. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus In Munich, she stumbles on the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was help to get her to establish trade links and what seems to convert the local inhabitants be a camp for non-native civilians to Christianity from look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined next chapter sees her going back into the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naivecamp next to Dachau once more, 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 torturethen eyebrows are being raised. [[In GoldDeviation by Luce d's Name by Marcus DalrympleEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry Count of Human Happiness 9 by James HallErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''The Industry Count of Human Happiness9'' first and foremost is a novel about musichardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in revolves around the simplest detective duo of places. Max Donald Lam and his younger cousin have realised their dream Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of opening a gramophone companypriceless Bornean artefacts. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forevercase quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Industry Count of Human Happiness 9 by James HallErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Hidden by Jon Michael VareseMary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:3star4.5star.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, 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]]
When 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. 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… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Precept: A Novel The Turn of Midnight by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMinette Walters]]===
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Nathan Whyte At the beginning of 1349 there is tremendously excited about a glimmer of a hope that the arrival ravages of Frederick Douglass the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fatherDorset the population is well, who is publishing the British edition because of Lady Anne''Narrative''s strict rules about quarantine, Douglass's memoir which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglasschurch, who is a charismatic figure but their stores of food are dwindling and a gifted orator. But Ireland they know that when they are exhausted they will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass no choice but to leave. What will have they find on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of outside? Are they the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. only survivors? [[Precept: A Novel The Turn of Midnight by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Frieda by Daniel PeltzAnnabel Abbs]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa MariaMarried to English Professor Ernest Weekley, which is what aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the ruins confines of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomemarried life. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceVisiting family in Munich, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs she becomes captivated by the attention ideas of young revolution and oldfree love. Molly uses Meeting the history to entertain the touristspenniless writer D.H. Lawrence, but there's more too it than she knowsfinds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, particularly as changing the history course of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyboth their lives, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the director course of the museumliterature forever. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Frieda by Daniel PeltzAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary House of Glass by Lucy WorsleySusan Fletcher]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Lady MaryOsteogenesis imperfecta'' chronicles : these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the famous story beginning of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynthe twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, his divorce from Katherine of Aragonliving life through a window and the tales her mother, Anne's execution for adulteryCharlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heirsounds they made on breaking. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''s young daughter, Mary. Mary Clara would only escape the house after her mother's hopes death - of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under tumour at the influence age of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years thirty nine - and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the middle offer of these tumultuous eventsa job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[Lady Mary House of Glass by Lucy WorsleySusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]===
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[[image:4starFlitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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. [[:Category:Historical FictionBellewether by Susanna Kearsley|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 Scott -->
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In eighteenth century LondonWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, sisters Fitzgeraldshe's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious childresistance were executed in World War Two. Fast forward to Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the London history of 2015, this woman – and back to a time when the sisters are still waiting - with no way men and women of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, 1940s France were engaged in a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifedesperate, but also forces them to keep a secret brutal fight for two hundred yearssurvival against their Nazi oppressors. As those years pass bymore and more secrets come to light, those who were granted immortality find Inès discovers that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging there are many in the absence of death. present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Parentations A Treachery of Spies by Kate MayfieldManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Murmuration by David LawsRobert Lock]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a 'Murmuration''Beyond follows the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has lives of a piece host of paper characters from Hitler1863 to the present day. I then proceeded From a risqué comic to prove it was a paper bagfortune teller, in fact, by blowing it up we see the birth of Blackpool and immediately bursting itits steadily fading glamour. That There is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot hint of hot air, and only leading mysticism to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazistale, and this book opens with the first-person reportage mesmerising dance of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign starlings over 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 of ignominy, to pick pier acting as an anchor throughout the lastdistinct narratives here, barest threads drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the story up and see just what did happen to himsea. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Murmuration by David LawsRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Mercy Seat by Snorri KristjanssonElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the uncrowned king shadow of the valleywindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; retired Viking farmer strapped to a chair and rumoured owner electrocuted for the rape of a large hoard of goldwhite girl, who later committed suicide. He is gathering resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his claninnocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales black man and remembering shared historya white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[Kin The Mercy Seat by Snorri KristjanssonElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks A Gathering of Ghosts by Elizabeth ChadwickKaren Maitland]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during Witchcraft, the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before supernatural and the death of King Baldwin will to leprosy survive at all costs collide in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back to fill in story that never shies away from the gaps having spent time studying this particular period darker side of his lifehuman nature. Her main problemThe land is unhappy, as she acknowledges at the end old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the bookold faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that virtually nothing something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he wenttainted, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back its healing waters run red with blood and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the lessstrangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[Templar Silks A Gathering of Ghosts by Elizabeth ChadwickKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Mr Peacock's Possessions by Mitchell & MitchellLydia Syson]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with On a remote volcanic island off the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II coast of England. A young womanNew Zealand, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her a family's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a new Kinghome. She arrives homeWhen a ship appears, however, to find her home ablaze they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and surrounded by renegade soldiersnewcomers come together in the search for the child, supporters of Cromwellthey uncover far, her family nowhere to be foundfar more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Revenge Mr Peacock's Possessions by Mitchell & MitchellLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Story Keeper by Shahad Al RawiAnna Mazzola]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is Audrey, a tale complex mix of flights of two friends growing up during the first fancy and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism seriousness, wanting, needing, to illustrate be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the displacement felt straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us father, who only once in his life threw caution to the various characters surrounding the protagonistwind and married way beneath him for love. They are full of life Now a widower and yet never seem remarried, he has rigorously returned to add anything to the central narrative. Rawiupholding what is right, it would seemwhat is proper, has a problem with telling a storythe bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Baghdad Clock Story Keeper by Shahad Al RawiAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Butcher's Daughter by Katherine ClementsVictoria Glendinning]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path 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 winds from the village well never seems to run dry and the moor top, characters are often those high up in the villagers only speak circles of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evilpower, or those prepared to do anything to get there. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthThis book, however, and she's always loved is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the grand house and its isolationeyes of Agnes Peppin, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle heryoung, poor woman. From objects disappearing through to As a shadowy presence sensed in the housewoman she can either marry, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsor join a convent. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has come no choice at all, and she is sent to love or tear it from her grasp? join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Coffin Path Butcher's Daughter by Katherine ClementsVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded Silence in the Desert by Sheila LlewellynDavid Longridge]]===
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David Reece was called up As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in 1941 a tale of love and sent to fight in Burmafriendship. On his return Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in 1946joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him andarriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, after a brawlLeo, is sent struggling to a military psychiatric hospital. Therealign his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, he is treated crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by Daniel Carterstrife and turmoil. As the war rages, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with these men are tested like Davidnever before, with trust, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT loyalty and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows love leading to decisions that affect both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences their lives and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIthose all around them. [[Walking Wounded Silence in the Desert by Sheila LlewellynDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Haunted Queen by Heather MorrisAlison Weir]]===
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SoWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthe third wife of Henry VIII, and 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 the horror there, king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and immediately swear stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itAnne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandan extent. In ''The Haunted Queen, to '' the extent you get third book in the word ''collaboratorSix Tudor Queens'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out series, author and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the political wing bones of a Queen haunted by the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes shadow of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, 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 campformidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Haunted Queen by Heather MorrisAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal In Gold's Name by Rachel HalliburtonMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the Royal Academy, is reflecting on end of the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father Aztec Empire and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal pale faces who arrived many years later with them honourablytheir deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped essentially a small amount decent man, particularly by the standards of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on a palette – the more force, but at the age of twenty three he prodded believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and stirred to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the memoryarmy from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the murkier it becameAztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal In Gold's Name by Rachel HalliburtonMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Industry of Human Happiness by John BanksJames Hall]]===
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On the slopes ''The Industry of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Human Happiness'' first and foremost is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationa novel about music. Josh Kinninger It is inspired by about human beings being able to find music and magic in the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored simplest of places. Max and with his world in turmoilyounger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Beginning However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a journey westward, hecourse towards London's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptunderworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[W The Industry of Human Happiness by John BanksJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths The Spirit Photographer by Elaine EverestJon Michael Varese]]===
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Jon Michael Varese''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, and continues s debut novel was inspired by the life story where of the first book left offreal-life father of spirit photography, William H. Members of the closeMumler. His fictional stand-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and keep morale high, even though the future now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is uncertain. At the heart dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the neighbourhood, bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the home ghost of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget superimposing it on the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling negative being developed, so close that it seems to homeappear hazily in the background. We catch up with the three friends Looking back from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to the warsee how anyone could have been fooled, Maisie is but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for a child and Freda would love to find romanceséances. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths The Spirit Photographer by Elaine EverestJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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