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===[[The Hidden Photographer of the Lost by Mary ChamberlainCaroline Scott]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through 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 pastspost. There is no letter or note with it. Revisiting their time There is nothing written on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers back of the photograph. It is a time when she concealed picture of her Jewish identityhusband, and JoeFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, a Catholic Priesthe has been "missing, remembers believed killed" but that is not something that a time when he hid something very differentyoung widow can believe. In this story of love She hangs on the word 'missing', loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse disbelieving the darkest shadows of war… word killed. [[The Hidden Photographer of the Lost by Mary ChamberlainCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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At the beginning Germany is split. Some of 1349 there her is a glimmer in favour of a hope that Hitler and the ravages Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Black Death might Soviets, but some will soon have to be passingon the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. In Devilish Finding out that 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 being in Dorset Berlin. The only way to shore things up, and repair the population splits, is wellto kill Hitler, because of Lady Anneand luckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's strict rules about quarantinearistocratic enough, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of the churchpower, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but so once he's succeeded he might be able to leavekeep a German presence in Europe. What But will they find on he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the outside? Are they blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the only survivorsmiddle? [[The Turn of Midnight Man Who Killed Hitler by Minette WaltersAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Frieda Just Another Girl on the Road by Annabel AbbsS Kensington]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever. [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349007640.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349007640/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Clara suffered When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease a farmhouse and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanceda group of German deserters who had raped her. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara Despite being outnumbered she was confined to her home, living life through a window giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought homegroup off. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the sounds they made on breakingJedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Charlotte would Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after d worked on her motherfather's death - of merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in crush on Nye. When he offered 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 Gloucestershirewith his unit, she accepted. [[House of Glass Just Another Girl on the Road by Susan FletcherS Kensington|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Flitting 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. 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. [[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0593072286.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593072286/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Lock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787198243.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murmuration Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory]]===
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Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a 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 such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name 'Murmuration'Frieda' follows ' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the lives of first time ever a host of characters from 1863 to the present daytattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller One bombshell outside, then, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourtwo inside. There And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a hint of mysticism first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the talereal Frieda, with a young woman that shook him to the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives herecore when he was her literature professor? That's right, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. more bombshells… [[Murmuration The Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellbombs rain down on Britain, staring at destroying the shadow homes and lives of a people on the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun raysedge. At midnightIn Epping Forest, he will be dead; strapped to Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a chair and electrocuted comfort for Susan following the rape loss of a white girl, who later committed suicideher parents. He is resigned These pigeons are more than just birds to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allSusan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, love between she sees a black man distinct personality and forms a white woman was never going close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to have a happy ending in a small town filled head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with smallair-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-minded peopleoccupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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WitchcraftRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, the supernatural and the will retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to survive at abandon all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human naturehe had built. The land Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is unhappy, tasked by Father Tuck to break the old spirits want revenge curse surrounding them 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 rootsave their lives. The sacred well is taintedSetting off with a soldier, its healing waters run red with blood a Fey Lord and strangers are blowing a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in on a wind maze of change. betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, 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 newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]] Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full Review]] <!-- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such Enid Campbell was a wealth woman who, on the face of intrigueit, plots and machinationshad everything. The regular cast Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of courtly characters are usually rich inherited wealth and powerfulsplendour, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry glamourous locales and the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerexpectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, or untreated and threatening both Enid and those prepared close to do anything to get thereher. This bookAfter losing custody of her children, howeverEnid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, is totally different. Set in or an act of desperation? Exploring the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes true story of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marryher own grandmother, or join a convent. Since Agnes Eleanor Anstruther has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allfound the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeybeautifully well-written debut. [[The Butcher's Daughter A Perfect Explanation by Victoria GlendinningEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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As It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the shadow walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the Second World War descends upon the planetindignity of white man against Native 'Indian', four people are explored who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a tale of love buffalo hunt, and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining who hates the Foreign Legionway man – and woman, Bill, arriving of course – can turn against fellow man at Cambridge on the bat of an RAF scholarshipeyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, Leoand the attendant problems with gold rushes, struggling pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to align his beliefs with those find this book's version of his upbringingUtopia, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As namely the war ragesEquator, these men are tested like never beforewhere everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with trustrocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, loyalty and love leading to decisions where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that affect both their lives equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and those all around them. it… [[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]===
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When it comes to Jane SeymourPoor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the third wife wives of Henry VIII, popular opinion she is the one who is dividedknown for being rejected. Some see her as Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious crown and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's Katharine Parr clung on to her life following his turbulent marriage to but poor frumpy Anne Boleynof Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Not any more! Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones presents us with a different view of a Queen haunted by this young woman who saw the shadow of a formidable predecessoropportunity to live an independent life and took it. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name Liberation Square by Marcus DalrympleGareth Rubin]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed 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 end of the Aztec Empire East, and Americans from the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlerswest. Some thought Dividing the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godnation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the standards murder of the timehis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceIn doing so, but at the age Jane follows a trail of twenty three he believed corruption that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and leads her right to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from highest levels of the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary state – and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed soon finds herself desperate to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing stay one step ahead of the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. murderous secret police… [[In Gold's Name Liberation Square by Marcus DalrympleGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===
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''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall:Category: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]] <!-- Varese Clark -->
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===[[In The Spirit Photographer Full Light of the Sun by Jon Michael VareseClare Clark]]===
[[image:3star5star.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]]
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 politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
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[[image:4starDeep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest before it's too late...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|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 d'Eramo -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Deviation by Daniel PeltzLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're For those of you who have read books of life in the company Nazi camps – and of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariacourse, which is what the ruins for those of the Chiesa - you who have not – this can be considered a chapel - have now becomenext step. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceIt begins, after all, a renaissance fresco with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a history which grabs the attention of young bombing raid, and old. Molly uses the history you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to entertain be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the touristsGermans. In Munich, but there's more too it than she knowsstumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, particularly as either official or otherwise. But then the history of next chapter sees her going back into the building is also the history of the Vannini familycamp next to Dachau once more, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumby then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Deviation by Daniel PeltzLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Count of 9 by Lucy WorsleyErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story The Count of Henry VIII9'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 is a male heir. This time, the hardboiled detective story is told through written in the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary1950s. Mary's hopes It revolves around the detective duo of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce Donald Lam and she is treated terribly by a father under Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the influence theft of the Boleyn factionpriceless Bornean artefacts. 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 eventsHowever, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Lady Mary The Count of 9 by Lucy WorsleyErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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