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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Phoenix of Florence by Victoria GlendinningPhilip Kazan]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth Deep in the Tuscan countryside of intriguefifteenth century Italy, plots Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and machinationshome. The regular cast Alone in the forest, she meets a band of courtly characters are usually rich and powerfulsoldiers who, with so many believing her to choose from that be a boy train and develop her – and the well never seems determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to run dry and the characters are often those high up avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the circles of powerway, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, or those prepared whose journey to do anything Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to get there. This bookhis own family history, howeverCelavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through hope that they can lay the eyes ghosts of Agnes Peppintheir shared history to rest, a young, poor womanbefore it's too late. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's Daughter Phoenix of Florence by Victoria GlendinningPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Deviation by David LongridgeLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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As For those of you who have read books of life in the shadow Nazi camps – and of the Second World War descends upon the planetcourse, four people are explored in for those of you who have not – this can be considered a tale of love and friendshipnext step. HenriIt begins, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legionafter all, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringingsomeone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and Elisabethyou'd not blame her one minute, crossing continents as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and changing names are all brought together sewage unblocker by strife and turmoilthe Germans. As the war ragesIn Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, these men are tested like never beforeor company, with trustor transport elsewhere, loyalty and love leading either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to decisions that affect both their lives Dachau once more, and those all around themby then eyebrows are being raised. [[Silence in the Desert Deviation by David LongridgeLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Count of 9 by Alison WeirErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife ''The Count of Henry VIII, popular opinion 9'' is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour hardboiled detective story written in the king's eyes1950s. Others view her It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage they attempt to Anne Boleynsolve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. Perhaps both sides are trueHowever, to their case quickly turns into something darker - an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessorimpossible murder. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Count of 9 by Alison WeirErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name The Hidden by Marcus DalrympleMary Chamberlain]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the end of the Aztec Empire mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and the inhabitants were are swiftly forced to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with confront their deer-without-antlerspasts. Some thought Revisiting their time on the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, but he was essentially a decent manCatholic Priest, particularly by the standards of the remembers a timewhen he hid something very different. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceIn this story of love, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links loss and betrayal, it remains to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from be seen whether a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing speck of light can diffuse the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. darkest shadows of war… [[In Gold's Name The Hidden by Marcus DalrympleMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry Turn of Human Happiness Midnight by James HallMinette Walters]]===
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''The Industry At the beginning of Human Happiness'' first and foremost 1349 there is a novel about musicglimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. It In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about human beings being able to find music and magic in quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the simplest strict rules of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised the church, but their dream stores of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition food are dwindling and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworldthey know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. They What will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Industry Turn of Human Happiness Midnight by James HallMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Frieda by Jon Michael VareseAnnabel Abbs]]===
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Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the life story confines of the real-married life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-Visiting family in here is Edward MoodyMunich, 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 she becomes captivated by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost ideas of a departed loved one appearsrevolution and free love. This involves getting hold of an image of Meeting the loved one penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and superimposing it on a tempestuous relationship, changing the negative being developedcourse of both their lives, so and unleashing a creative outpouring that it seems to appear hazily in will change 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 séancescourse of literature forever. [[The Spirit Photographer Frieda by Jon Michael VareseAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher]]===
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[[imageClara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'':4starthese 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 it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and 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 tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionHouse of Glass by Susan Fletcher|Historical FictionFull Review]]
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 ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure 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 as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz Kearsley -->
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When we first visit Flitting between the Chiesa di Santa Maria wepresent day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether're in ' tells the company fascinating tale of Molly Cavendish who the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a part-time guide at museum due to the Museo di Santa Maria, which legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is what told from the ruins perspective of Charley, the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiecemuseum curator, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the attention of young house and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but theretheir story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's more too it than she knowssister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, particularly as the history Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the building book is also continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants just as Charley is the director of the museumbeginning to unravel it herself. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Bellewether by Daniel PeltzSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary A Treachery of Spies by Lucy WorsleyManda Scott]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the famous story horrific murder of Henry VIIIa strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine puzzled – whilst the identity of Aragonthe woman has been erased, Anneit's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heirresistance were executed in World War Two. This time, Solving the story is told through mystery will lead Inès deep into the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes history of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce this woman – and she is treated terribly by back to a father under time when the influence men and women of the Boleyn faction1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years As more and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the middle of these tumultuous events. present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Lady Mary A Treachery of Spies by Lucy WorsleyManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Murmuration by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisRobert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4star''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[:Category:Historical FictionMurmuration by Robert Lock|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 Winthrop -->
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In eighteenth century Londonan isolated Louisiana town, sisters Fitzgeralda young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious childevening's dying sun rays. Fast forward At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the London rape of 2015a white girl, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is alive futile to protest his innocence or dead. Far awayto expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them white woman was never going to keep have a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from happy ending in a blessing small town filled with small- with true darkness emerging in the absence of deathminded people. [[The Parentations Mercy Seat by Kate MayfieldElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Gathering of Ghosts by David LawsKaren Maitland]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicWitchcraft, you know – a full one-line the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a ''Beyond story that never shies away from the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece darker side of paper from Hitlerhuman nature. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagThe land is unhappy, in fact, by blowing it up the old spirits want revenge and immediately bursting it. That famine is what that paper was to many – the indicator of kindling a lot resurgence of hot airthe old faith. As fear rises, and only leading it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayignore that something rotten has taken root. CertainlyThe sacred well is tainted, not everyone was keen on his appeasement its healing waters run red with the Nazis, blood and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen strangers are blowing in on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign 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 the last, barest threads wind of the story up and see just what did happen to himchange. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Gathering of Ghosts by David LawsKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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Unnthor Reginsson is On a remote volcanic island off the uncrowned king coast of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a large hoard of goldhome. He is gathering his clanWhen a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a grand reunion after ten years of absencevulnerable boy disappears. It is time As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for strengthening family bondsthe child, feastingthey uncover far, telling tall tales far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and remembering shared historythose who inhabit it. [[Kin Mr Peacock's Possessions by Snorri KristjanssonLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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''Templar Silks'' is Audrey, a great example complex mix of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account flights of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of calm before her, escapes from the death straightjacket of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185her home. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back threw caution to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his lifewind and married way beneath him for love. Her main problem, as she acknowledges at the end of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when Now a widower and why he went, we know who the major power players wereremarried, we know when he came back and that has rigorously returned to upholding what is about it. So understandablyright, this book what is probably more fiction than history but it proper, the bastion of doing what is brilliantly written none the lessexpected. [[Templar Silks The Story Keeper by Elizabeth ChadwickAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Butcher's Daughter by Mitchell & MitchellVictoria Glendinning]]===
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''Revenge'' opens 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 news that Charles Stuart is to return well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the throne as Charles II circles of Englandpower, or those prepared to do anything to get there. A young womanThis book, Ruth Courtneyhowever, is returning home to her family's farmhouse, excited at totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the prospect eyes of Agnes Peppin, a new Kingyoung, poor woman. She arrives homeAs a woman she can either marry, howeveror join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters join the nuns of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundShaftesbury Abbey. [[Revenge The Butcher's Daughter by Mitchell & MitchellVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Silence in the Desert by Shahad Al RawiDavid Longridge]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale of two friends growing up during the first love and second Iraqi warfriendship. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to illustrate the displacement felt align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by a young girl strife and her neighbourhoodturmoil. The novel introduces us to As the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They war rages, these men are full of life and yet tested like never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawibefore, it would seemwith trust, has a problem with telling a storyloyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[The Baghdad Clock Silence in the Desert by Shahad Al RawiDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Coffin Path Haunted Queen by Katherine ClementsAlison Weir]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village When it comes to the moor topJane Seymour, the villagers only speak third wife of it 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 hushed tones - of how itthe king's eyes. Others view her as a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and shestability into Henry's always loved the grand house and its isolationlife following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle heran extent. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the house''Six Tudor Queens'' series, mysteries come to light that can only be solved author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsthe shadow of a formidable predecessor. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Coffin Path Haunted Queen by Katherine ClementsAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded In Gold's Name by Sheila LlewellynMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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David Reece It was called up in 1941 about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and sent the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to fight in Burmaaccept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. On his return in 1946 Antonio Vega was no god, but he finds was essentially a return to civilian life quite beyond him anddecent man, after a brawl, is sent to a military psychiatric hospitalparticularly by the standards of the time. There He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but at the age of twenty three he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him believed that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT seminary and lobotomy. whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'Walking Woundedd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and find a place in a world moving on from WWIItorture. [[Walking Wounded In Gold's Name by Sheila LlewellynMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist Industry of Auschwitz Human Happiness by Heather MorrisJames Hall]]===
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So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaboratorThe Industry of Human Happiness'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out first and get foremost is a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, answerable novel about music. It is about human beings being able to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, find music and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle magic in for you, under the eyes simplest of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, places. Max and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daringhis younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in hubris soon puts them on a burgeoning love that he found in the campcourse towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Tattooist Industry of Auschwitz Human Happiness by Heather MorrisJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Spirit Photographer by Rachel HalliburtonJon Michael Varese]]===
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Rachel HalliburtonJon Michael Varese's debut novel opens was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in London here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in January 1797Boston. Benjamin WestMoody is dismissive of spiritualism, President 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 Royal Academy, is reflecting loved one and superimposing it on the past year's scandal involving the Provisesnegative being developed, father and daughter, and worries so that he handled everything poorlyit seems to appear hazily in the background. From the start the bookLooking back from today's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: high-tech perspective, it'He had intended s hard to deal with them honourablysee how anyone could have been fooled, but now everyone suffering people 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, desperate situations often want to believe; the murkier it becamesame goes for séances.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Spirit Photographer by Rachel HalliburtonJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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