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Review: Machiavelli, A Renaissance Life by Joseph Markulin

May 22, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb This epic piece of storytelling brings the world of fifteenth-century Italy to life as it traces Machiavelli’s rise from…

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Review: Rags of Time by Michael Ward

May 18, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb London. 1639.Thomas Tallant, a young and ambitious Spice Merchant, returns from India to find his city in turmoil. A…

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Review: Fortune’s Child, A Novel of Empress Theodora by James Conroyd Martin

May 4, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard’s apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary…

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Mary Anne Yarde Reviews The King’s Retribution by Mercedes Rochelle

April 20, 2020 admin Leave a comment

“When I was young and powerless, they saw fit to manipulate Parliament to achieve their selfish ends. Those days are…

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Review: Tomb for an Eagle by Lexie Conyngham

April 17, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb A man lies under the tawny earth, hands still clutching the knife that killed him.Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of all…

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Review: Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant

April 13, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and…

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Review: The Shadow Queen by Anne O’Brien

April 6, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Once I read about the tempestuous life of Richard II’s mother, I began to understand a bit more about his…

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Review: Victorine by Drēma Drudge

April 2, 2020 admin 1 Comment

Blurb In 1863, Civil War is raging in the United States. Victorine Meurent is posing nude, in Paris, for paintings…

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Review: The Pearl of York, Treason and Plot by Tony Morgan

March 14, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb When Margaret Clitherow is arrested for illegally harbouring Catholic priests, her friends, led by a youthful Guy Fawkes, face…

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Review: MARLENE by C.W. Gortner

March 6, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Blurb Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage.…

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