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"I enjoyed this novel on a historical point of view, particularly because I knew next to nothing about Offa. I was not so sure though about the characters who were either too good or too bad people. I sometimes felt the novel to be repetitive and a bi"
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"The first in a new historical adventure from MJ Porter. The year is 757 and Offa and his family have been bought before the king. Thereafter Offa's life changes dramatically. As we have come to expect from MJ Porter this is a well written fictionalis"
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"757: Offa is being held as a hostage by King Æthelbald as surety for his parents’ future behaviour. Treated badly by all, except for the slaves, he is put to work cleaning out the stables and sleeps, when he is allowed to sleep, with the hounds. When"
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"Great historical fiction! Set in Mercia a long time ago it’s the coming of age (and into power) of Offa, a young aristocratic of age 17. Offa comes to King Æthelbald's court with his parents at the King’s summoning. The visit is a disaster, as Offa’s"
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Murder in Rome is somehow the 16th book in the Armstrong and Oscar mysteries. This latest outing sees Dan and his wife venturing into the Alps to meet a friend from an earlier mystery, and of course, there's an ulterior motive as well. Is someone tryi ...more |
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House of Twisted Shadows is an engrossing, claustrophobic historical thriller set in a bitterly cold winter in 1962. Our main character, Amelia, is driven to finally discover the truth about her father's murder, ten years earlier, no matter what it ta ...more |
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| The Bookshop Book is such a rare thing in the Mark Lawrence 'bookverse' - a book that unapologetically ties to another of his books, in this case the Library Trilogy, without the reader having to scurry around, trying to find the connection (oh yes - ...more | |
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I love this series of medieval mysteries set in and around Worcester, and A Shroud of Snow is a fab addition. Catchpoll and Walkelin find themselves summoned to the quayside on a bitterly cold morning where the body of Hamelin Isenmonger has been foun ...more |
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“I don’t wish to be left behind by the man who made me the woman I am today. No, if I could, I’d follow him on his journey and take pride and pleasure in doing so.”
― The First Queen: An incredibly gripping historical romance featuring England's first crowned queen
― The First Queen: An incredibly gripping historical romance featuring England's first crowned queen
“Leofric absorbed that surprised that Olaf was as aware as he was of the difference between the Vikings and the English.”
― The Earl of Mercia: England: The Second Viking Age
― The Earl of Mercia: England: The Second Viking Age
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“I don’t wish to be left behind by the man who made me the woman I am today. No, if I could, I’d follow him on his journey and take pride and pleasure in doing so.”
― The First Queen: An incredibly gripping historical romance featuring England's first crowned queen
― The First Queen: An incredibly gripping historical romance featuring England's first crowned queen
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