The Hindered Hand
Sutton E. Griggs, John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger
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Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister...
A Dangerous Life (DCI Jack Callum #2)
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A tortured body is found hanging from a tree DCI Jack Cullum leads the investigation into this...
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Gun Island
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Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare...
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The Murderess Must Die
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On a winter day in 1898, hundreds of spectators gather at a Brooklyn courthouse, scrambling for a...
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By the Light of Embers
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It's 1954, and twenty-two-year-old Lucia Lafleur has always dreamed of following in her father’s...
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ClareR (5674 KP) rated The Sin Eater in Books
Oct 5, 2021
Each sin in this book has a different food, which is how 14yr old May Owens learns that something sinister is going on in the Queen’s court.
May can’t tell anyone what she knows. It’s a terrible punishment for a young girl: sentenced to a life of silence and ostracised by everyone - all because she stole bread to eat. Ok, she’ll never go hungry, but some of the combinations are pretty grim!
I really enjoyed reading about the travelling entertainers, and the homeless people who decide that living with a walking, breathing curse (May) is worth the risk when it’s cold outside.
This is a really atmospheric book, steeped in the sights, sounds and smells of a 16th Century England-type-place, and it ticked a lot of boxes for me as a historical fiction, occasional fantasy fan (amongst the other types of fiction!!)
The Ministry of Time
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A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE...
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The Curse of Maiden Scars (Maiden, Mother, Crone #1)
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Sixteen-year-old Renna Covert toils away in the shadows of a Yorkshire workhouse, her days filled...
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MaryAnn (14 KP) rated Phoebe's Light (Nantucket Legacy #1) in Books
Mar 5, 2019
Not only excited for her birthday, but the ship Fortuna has arrived in port. Phoebe has always imagined that she loved older widowed captain and she hopes to finally capture his attention. When Phoebe runs into the captain he is very interested in Phoebe's birthday gift and wants to read this journal for himself.
Soon Phoebe finds herself married to the captain Phineas Foulger and on a voyage with two things, her great grandmother's journal and a man sent by her father to mind her; Matthew Macy a cooper whom she once loved until he turned away from God.
Pheobe soon finds that life at sea is not the trip she envisioned. Seasick and disillusioned, she turns to the pages of great-grandmother Mary's journal and she finds a secret that has consequences for everyone on the ship.
This is a book that the reader will find hard to put down. Full of history and mystery; the plot takes the readers on many twists and turns and keeps your interest going.
I truly enjoyed this book and found it difficult to put down. Anyone who loves historical fiction will love this book. The author has done her research well and brought this research to life in her novels. I look forward to the next book in the series "Minding the Light".
I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes historical fiction.
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