The Shape of Darkness
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As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep...
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Queen of Blood (The Cross and the Crown #4)
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Queen of Blood, Book Four of the Cross and the Crown series, continues the story of Catherine...
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The Talk of Pram Town
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It’s 1981. Eleven-year-old Sadie adores her beautiful and vibrant mother, Connie, whose dreams of...
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Two Women in Rome
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A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan. ...
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The Amber Crane
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Chafing at the rules of the amber guild, Peter, an apprentice during the waning years of the Thirty...
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Templar Silks
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William Marshal has reached the end of his long and glorious life. On his deathbed at his manor in...
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The Virgin Blue
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Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful...
Things In Jars
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London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case...
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Miss Aldridge Regrets
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London, 1936 Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career...
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ClareR (5784 KP) rated Lucifer’s Game in Books
Feb 15, 2022
Cordelia Olivieri’s life in Rome becomes more precarious as the Italian fascists start to identify more Italians with Jewish heritage. Cordelia’s English mother was Jewish. She has a friend in the Vatican who promises to get her on a transport to England, if she will just photograph the German plans for North Africa. This seems a simple task (or not!), as the German officer in charge of the planning for Rommel has taken over Cordelia’s hotel as his centre of operations. But Cordelia complicates things somewhat when she starts to fall in love with him.
The villains in this book are thoroughly despicable, and the ‘goodies’ are in constant danger. It’s all very nail-bitingly exciting and another great read on The Pigeonhole!