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===[[Murmuration The Phoenix of Florence by Robert LockPhilip Kazan]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows Deep in the lives Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a host band of characters from 1863 soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the present day. From determined Onoria becomes a risqué comic mercenary – desperate to a fortune telleravoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, we see the birth of Blackpool whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the talepast he shares with Onoria, with in the hope that they can lay the mesmerising dance ghosts of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives heretheir shared history to rest, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the seabefore it's too late... [[Murmuration The Phoenix of Florence by Robert LockPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Deviation by Elizabeth H WinthropLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits For those of you who have read books of life in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow Nazi camps – and of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnightcourse, he will for those of you who have not – this can be dead; strapped to considered a chair next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and electrocuted for the rape of fleeing her work assignment during a white girlbombing raid, who later committed suicideand you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. He is resigned In Munich, she stumbles on help to his fate; it is futile get her to protest his innocence or what seems to expect anyone be a camp for non-native civilians to believe what really happened; after alllook for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, love between a black man and a white woman was never either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peopleDachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Mercy Seat Deviation by Elizabeth H WinthropLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering The Count of Ghosts 9 by Karen MaitlandErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story that never shies away from written in the darker side of human nature1950s. The land is unhappy, It revolves around the old spirits want revenge detective duo of Donald Lam and famine is kindling a resurgence Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of the old faithpriceless Bornean artefacts. As fear risesHowever, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that their case quickly turns into something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of changedarker - an impossible murder. [[A Gathering The Count of Ghosts 9 by Karen MaitlandErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Hidden by Lydia SysonMary Chamberlain]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New ZealandWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, a family of settlers struggle determined to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsidentify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, they feel that their wishes have been granted Dora and Joe find their community reinvigorated worlds upended – but high hopes and are swiftly dashed 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 vulnerable boy disappearstime when he hid something very different. As both settlers In this story of love, loss and newcomers come together in the search for the childbetrayal, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the island and those who inhabit it. darkest shadows of war… [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Hidden by Lydia SysonMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Turn of Midnight by Anna MazzolaMinette Walters]]===
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Audrey, At the beginning of 1349 there is a complex mix glimmer of flights a hope that the ravages of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to the Black Death might be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her homepassing. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once In Devilish in his life threw caution to Dorset the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what population is rightwell, what is properbecause of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the bastion strict rules of doing what is expectedthe church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Story Keeper Turn of Midnight by Anna MazzolaMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Frieda by Victoria GlendinningAnnabel Abbs]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of intrigue, plots and machinationsmarried life. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerfulVisiting family in Munich, with so many to choose from that she becomes captivated by the well never seems to run dry ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get therepenniless writer D. This book, however, is totally differentH. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes PeppinLawrence, she finds herself drawn into a young, poor woman. As passionate affair and a woman she can either marrytempestuous relationship, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allchanging the course of both their lives, and she is sent to join unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the nuns course of Shaftesbury Abbeyliterature forever. [[The Butcher's Daughter Frieda by Victoria GlendinningAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert House of Glass by David LongridgeSusan Fletcher]]===
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As 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 shadow beginning of the Second World War descends upon the planettwentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, four people are explored in living life through a tale of love window and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legiontales her mother, BillCharlotte, arriving at Cambridge brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil''. As Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty age of thirty nine - and love leading in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themthe offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[Silence in the Desert House of Glass by David LongridgeSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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When it comes to Jane SeymourFlitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the third wife fascinating tale of Henry VIIIthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, popular opinion the Wilde House is dividedbeing turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker It is told from an ambitious family the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who would stop at nothing to gain favour is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in the kingtragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's eyes. Others view her as sister, Lydia, and a pious and GodFrench-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-fearing woman Philippe who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage was sent to Anne Boleynlive there. Perhaps both sides are trueThe perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, to an extentthen Lydia and Jean-Philippe. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' latter two tell the third book truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' serieshistory, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessorjust as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Bellewether by Alison WeirSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name A Treachery of Spies by Marcus DalrympleManda Scott]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the end horrific murder 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 Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent manstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, particularly by she's puzzled – whilst the standards identity of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forcewoman has been erased, but at the age of twenty three he believed it's clear that the expedition she has been killed in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants same way that traitors to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesresistance were executed in World War Two. He'd joined Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the army from history of this woman – and back to a seminary time when the men and whilst you wouldn't call him naivewomen of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, he'd failed brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to appreciate light, Inès discovers that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing there are many in the Aztec gold present who would rather their past stay buried – and that any conversion many who would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. kill to keep secrets safe… [[In Gold's Name A Treachery of Spies by Marcus DalrympleManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness Murmuration by James HallRobert Lock]]===
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''The Industry of Human HappinessMurmuration'' first and foremost is follows the lives of a novel about musichost of characters from 1863 to the present day. It is about human beings being able From a risqué comic to find music and magic in a fortune teller, we see the simplest birth of placesBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of opening a gramophone company. Howeverstarlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their drawing together disparate stories of lives changed forevercaptivated by the sea. [[The Industry of Human Happiness Murmuration by James HallRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Mercy Seat by Jon Michael VareseElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the life story shadow 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 Bostonwindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. Moody is dismissive of spiritualismAt midnight, yet considers himself he will be dead; strapped to be doing a service to chair and electrocuted for the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost rape of a departed loved one appearswhite girl, who later committed suicide. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing He is resigned to his fate; it on the negative being developed, so that it seems is futile to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard protest his innocence or to see how expect anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believewhat really happened; the same goes for séancesafter all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Spirit Photographer Mercy Seat by Jon Michael VareseElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]===
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[[image:4starWitchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionA Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|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 Syson -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mr Peacock's Possessions by Daniel PeltzLydia Syson]]===
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When we first visit On a remote volcanic island off the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company coast of Molly Cavendish who is New Zealand, a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins family of the Chiesa - settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a chapel - have now becomehome. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceWhen a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and old. Molly uses newcomers come together in the history to entertain search for the touristschild, they uncover far, but there's far more too it than she knows, particularly as they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, island and those who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museuminhabit it. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mr Peacock's Possessions by Daniel PeltzLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story Audrey, a complex mix of flights of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynfancy and seriousness, his divorce from Katherine of Aragonwanting, Anne's execution for adulteryneeding, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourbe more than what everyone expects of her, which finally produces escapes from the much longed for birth straightjacket of a male heirher home. This timeWhere every action, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterevery thought, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she every yearning is treated terribly controlled by a her father under , who only once in his life threw caution to the influence of the Boleyn factionwind and married way beneath him for love. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years Now a widower and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the middle bastion of these tumultuous eventsdoing what is expected. [[Lady Mary The Story Keeper by Lucy WorsleyAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[My LadyThe Butcher's Choosing Daughter by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisVictoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starThe 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 well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|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 Longridge -->
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In eighteenth century London, sisters FitzgeraldAs the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, Constance and Verity four people are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - explored in a tale of love and charged with protecting friendship. Henri, fulfilling a mysterious child. Fast forward family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to the London align his beliefs with those of 2015his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the sisters war rages, these men are still waiting - tested like never before, with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far awaytrust, a hidden pool grants loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces all around them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging [[Silence in the absence of death. [[The Parentations Desert by Kate MayfieldDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[MunichSix Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Man Who Said No! Haunted Queen by David LawsAlison Weir]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, you know – popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a full onescheming marriage-line wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in a ''Beyond the Fringeking'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitlers eyes. I then proceeded to prove it was Others view her as a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and immediately bursting itstability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot airPerhaps both sides are true, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayextent. CertainlyIn ''The Haunted Queen, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with '' the Nazis, and this third book opens with in the first-person reportage of one such man''Six Tudor Queens'' series, keen author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh 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 bones of a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick Queen haunted by the last, barest threads shadow of the story up and see just what did happen to hima formidable predecessor. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[MunichSix Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Man Who Said No! Haunted Queen by David LawsAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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Unnthor Reginsson is It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the uncrowned king end of the valley; retired Viking farmer Aztec Empire and rumoured owner of 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 Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a large hoard decent man, particularly by the standards of goldthe time. He is gathering was the finest marksman with his clanharquebus on the force, a grand reunion after ten years but at the age of absencetwenty three he believed that 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. It is time for strengthening family bonds He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, feasting, telling tall tales 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 remembering shared historytorture. [[Kin In Gold's Name by Snorri KristjanssonMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Industry of Human Happiness by Elizabeth ChadwickJames Hall]]===
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''Templar SilksThe Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a great example of historical fiction done wellnovel about music. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time is about human beings being able to find music and magic in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death simplest of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185places. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in Max and his life for lack younger cousin have realised their dream of research. In this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his lifeopening a gramophone company. Her main problemHowever, as she acknowledges at the end of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshaltheir ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's time in Jerusalemunderworld. We know when They will ascend broken 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 the lesstheir lives changed forever. [[Templar Silks The Industry of Human Happiness by Elizabeth ChadwickJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Spirit Photographer by Mitchell & MitchellJon Michael Varese]]===
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Jon Michael Varese''Revenge'' opens with s debut novel was inspired by the news that Charles Stuart is to return to life story of the throne as Charles II real-life father of Englandspirit photography, William H. Mumler. A young womanHis fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, Ruth Courtneywho was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, is returning home yet considers himself to be doing a service to her the bereaved by fabricating family's farmhouse, excited at photographs in which the prospect ghost of a new Kingdeparted loved one appears. She arrives homeThis involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, howeverso that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldierssee how anyone could have been fooled, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere but suffering people in desperate situations often want to be foundbelieve; the same goes for séances. [[Revenge The Spirit Photographer by Mitchell & MitchellJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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