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===[[The Mercy Seat Photographer of the Lost by Elizabeth H WinthropCaroline Scott]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, May 1921. Edie receives a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the shadow back of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun raysphotograph. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to It is a chair and electrocuted for the rape picture of a white girlher husband, who later committed suicideFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. He Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to not something that a young widow can believe what really happened; after all. She hangs on the word 'missing', 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 peopledisbelieving the word killed. [[The Mercy Seat Photographer of the Lost by Elizabeth H WinthropCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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WitchcraftGermany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the supernatural and east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to survive at all costs collide in a story be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that never shies the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from the darker side of human naturebeing in Berlin. The land only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is unhappyto kill Hitler, the old spirits want revenge and famine luckily Baron Nicholas is kindling a resurgence of the old faithman to do it. As fear risesHe's aristocratic enough, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to ignore that something rotten has taken rootkeep a German presence in Europe. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and strangers are blowing the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in on a wind of change. the middle? [[A Gathering of Ghosts The Man Who Killed Hitler by Karen MaitlandAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Just Another Girl on the Road by Lydia SysonS Kensington]]===
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On When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, farmhouse and a family group of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homeGerman deserters who had raped her. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsfinished the group off. As both settlers It was 1944 and newcomers come together in the search for Farr and Valentine were part of the childJedburgh unit, they uncover farEDMOND, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and those who inhabit itKatrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Just Another Girl on the Road by Lydia SysonS Kensington|Full Review]]
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AudreyBerlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a complex mix city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of flights of fancy and seriousnesssuch euphoria, wantingbut cannot feel it, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of for she has not left herfather's apartment in weeks, escapes from the straightjacket of her homenursing him as he lies dying. Where every action One standard bed-bath, every thoughthowever, every yearning is controlled by her fathervery different, who only once in his life threw caution to when he gasps the wind name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and married way beneath him she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for lovehis camp inmate identity under his watch. Now a widower One bombshell outside, then, and remarriedtwo inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has rigorously returned a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to upholding what is the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. more bombshells… [[The Story Keeper Rabbit Girls by Anna MazzolaEllory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Long Flight Home by Victoria GlendinningA L Hlad]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigueSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, plots destroying the homes and machinationslives of a people on the edge. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and powerful, her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with so many to choose from that the well never seems birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to run dry Susan though – in each one, and the characters are often those high up especially in the circles of powerDuchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, or those prepared young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to do anything head to get thereBritain and join the Royal Air Force. This book, howeverWorking with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes tasked with air-dropping hundreds of Agnes Peppinhoming pigeons into German-occupied France, a young, poor womanwhere many will not survive. As a woman she can either marrythe mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allbut when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and she is sent to join the nuns ensures that hope of Shaftesbury Abbey. a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Butcher's Daughter Long Flight Home by Victoria GlendinningA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Brightfall by David LongridgeJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planetRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, four people are explored in and retreating to a tale of love and friendshipmonastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. HenriMarion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, fulfilling a family tradition in joining Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling curse surrounding them and to align his beliefs save their lives. Setting off with those of his upbringinga soldier, a Fey Lord and Elisabetha sullen Robin Hood, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the war ragesshe becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, these men are tested like never beforecomplicated relationships, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Silence in the Desert Brightfall by David LongridgeJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen A Perfect Explanation by Alison WeirEleanor Anstruther]]===
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When it comes to Jane SeymourEnid Campbell was a woman who, on the third wife face of Henry VIIIit, popular opinion is dividedhad everything. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from Leading the life of an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and God-fearing woman who brought calm splendour, glamourous locales and stability into Henryhigh expectations. Only Enid's life following his turbulent marriage has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to Anne Boleynher. Perhaps both sides are trueAfter losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an extent. In ''The Haunted Queenact of greed,'' or an act of desperation? Exploring the third book in true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the ''Six Tudor Queens'' seriesperfect subject for an explosive, author moving and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessorbeautifully well-written debut. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen A Perfect Explanation by Alison WeirEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name Equator by Marcus DalrympleAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series strikes me that nobody can speak well of mystical events foreshadowed the end Wild West outside the walls of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were a theme park. Our agent to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought bristles at the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godindignity of white man against Native 'Indian', but he was essentially who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a decent buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man– and woman, particularly by of course – can turn against fellow man at the standards bat of the timean eyelid. He was But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the finest marksman attendant problems with his harquebus on the forcegold rushes, but at the age pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of twenty three he believed that Utopia, namely the expedition Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in October 1520 was their pockets to establish trade links and to convert keep them on the local inhabitants ground to Christianity from counter the local religions which required human sacrificesanti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. HeBut that equator is a long way away – and there'd joined the army from s a seminary whole adventure full of Mexico and whilst you wouldn't call Latin America between him naive, 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 torture. it… [[In Gold's Name Equator by Marcus DalrympleAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Human Happiness Kleve, Queen of Secrets by James HallAlison Weir]]===
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''The Industry Poor, frumpy Anne of Human Happiness'' first and foremost Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the wives of Henry VIII she is a novel about music. It the one who is about human beings known for being able to find music rejected. Anne Boleyn and magic in Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the simplest dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine of places. Max Aragon clung on to her crown and his younger cousin have realised their dream Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of opening a gramophone companyCleaves just rolled over and moved along. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and their lives changed forevertook it. [[The Industry Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Human Happiness Secrets by James HallAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Liberation Square by Jon Michael VareseGareth Rubin]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical 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:5star. Looking back from today's high-tech perspectivejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, 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 Boy in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Worsley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Worsley_Mary.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/408869446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly Turban by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]Joseph Hucknall] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London of 2015, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way 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 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 in the absence of death. [[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] <!-- Laws -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler[[image:4star. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen 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 of the story up and see just what did happen to him. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David LawsCategory:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Kristjansson Clark -->
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===[[Kin In The Full Light of the Sun by Snorri KristjanssonClare Clark]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the uncrowned king of politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a large hoard true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of gold. He is gathering his clanHitler and the Nazis, a grand reunion after ten years the discovery of absence. It is time for strengthening family bondsthe art allows these characters to explore authenticity, feasting, telling tall tales vanity and remembering shared historyself-delusion. [[Kin In The Full Light of the Sun by Snorri KristjanssonClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Phoenix of Florence by Elizabeth ChadwickPhilip Kazan]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a great example of historical fiction done wellmassacre that destroys her family and home. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time Alone in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during forest, she meets a brief spell band of calm before soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the death of King Baldwin determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to leprosy avoid any situation in 1185which she may feel vulnerable again. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of researchAlong the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. In this book she goes back As he digs further and uncovers links to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problemown family history, as she acknowledges at Celavini must revisit the end of past he shares with Onoria, in the book, is hope that virtually nothing is known they can lay the ghosts of Marshaltheir shared history to rest before it's time in Jerusalemtoo late. 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 the less. [[Templar Silks The Phoenix of Florence by Elizabeth ChadwickPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Deviation by Mitchell & MitchellLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with For those of you who have read books of life in the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II Nazi camps – and of course, for those of Englandyou who have not – this can be considered a next step. A young womanIt begins, Ruth Courtneyafter all, is returning home to with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her familywork assignment during a bombing raid, and you's farmhoused not blame her one minute, excited at as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the prospect of a new KingGermans. She arrives home, howeverIn Munich, she stumbles on help to find get her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiersto what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, supporters of Cromwellor transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her family nowhere going back into the camp next to be foundDachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Revenge Deviation by Mitchell & MitchellLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Count of 9 by Shahad Al RawiErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''The Baghdad ClockCount of 9'' is a tale of two friends growing up during hardboiled detective story written in the first and second Iraqi war1950s. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate It revolves around the displacement felt by a young girl detective duo of Donald Lam and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full theft of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrativepriceless Bornean artefacts. Rawi, it would seemHowever, has a problem with telling a storytheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Baghdad Clock Count of 9 by Shahad Al RawiErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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