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|author=David Gilman
|title=Master of War: Defiant Unto Death
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary= Spoilers straight ahead for the first book, [[Master of War by David Gilman|Master of War]] so go read that first…
Ready?
Ok…
It's been 10 years since the young Thomas Blackstone chose military service over hanging and faced the French at Crecy, coming away from the battle knighted. Time's passing now finds him and his wife Christiana living with their two children in Normandy castle. Meanwhile in French held France, the current king, John II, is proving unpopular, starving the country with taxes and spreading fear with his cruel capricious nature. He sees betrayal everywhere and will execute those he perceives to be against him. However, now he's right and there is a plot brewing and French royalist Simon Bucy has a plan to put it down: remove its cornerstone. His perceived cornerstone is none other than Sir Thomas Blackstone. This isn't going to be a clean fight; bring on the Savage Priest!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851905</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=William Nicholson
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided to write a screenplay about the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd and Austin Dickinson (no relation). 1881: Austin, brother of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, has an unhappy marriage but isn't looking for happiness outside it till he meets Mabel. The very liberated Mabel may be married too, but her husband believes in freedom within wedlock. There follows one of the most scandalous relationships to face small town New England; a relationship that Alice wants to research on-site. While there, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is the 21st century so she feels ready for the consequences.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hazel Gaynor
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Love
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Andersen
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Riordan
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Bausch
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Gibson
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855927</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Ross
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081124</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Erin Knightley
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracey Warr
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daisy Waugh
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joanna Hickson
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Man Who Loved Dogs
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Priestley
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Edric
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Krishna Bhatt
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Erin Knightley
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Hill
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katherine Webb
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rory Clements
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barbara Ewing
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859965</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Purdy
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405956</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=L C Tyler
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Catherine Hall
|summary=Once home from her role as a photo-journalist in Afghanistan, Jo decides to move into the Brighton flat that her great aunt Elizabeth has bequeathed her. While searching through the belongings that go with the home, she finds Elizabeth's WWI diaries from the time that she nursed wounded servicemen from the Indian Corps at the Brighton Pavilion. These entries cause her to reflect on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series of letters, telling her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did to them and, indeed, to her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>
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