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The Frightened Little Flower Bud

Renée Paule

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For ages 4 to 99 Please note this version uses 'British spelling'. There is an American version...

children

A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left

Simon Hannah

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For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation...

Politics

A Simple Favor

Darcey Bell

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It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When glamorous...

Quicksand

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The object of the game is to be the first player to get your adventurer around the board from START...

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Black Sails

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A prequel to the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel "Treasure Island," "Black Sails" is a pirate...

A Fire Sparkling

Julianne MacLean

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After a crushing betrayal by the man she loves, Gillian Gibbons flees to her family home for a...

historical fiction women's fiction

The Long Slide

Tucker Carlson

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Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2434 KP) rated God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen in Books

Oct 13, 2021

Royal Intrigue at Christmas

Lady Georgiana and Darcy are looking forward to their first Christmas as husband and wife, but then they are invited to spend the holiday at a house party being given by one of Darcy’s aunts. The implication that the queen herself wants them nearby is the only thing that makes them go. When they arrive, they learn the queen is worried someone is after a member of her family. Can Georgie figure out what is going on in time?

Fans of the series will expect that the book will get off to a slow start as we get updates on the various supporting characters we’ve gotten to know over the series. While we get hits of the plot, celebrating Christmas also slows the pacing down a little. But there is a good mystery in there, and I didn’t have the how or who figured out until Georgie pieced it to together. The end of 1935 was a huge time in British history, and I loved how the real intrigue played into this story, weaving in things we’ve been reading about since book one. This is a Christmas fans will definitely be glad they spent with Georgie.