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  A Class Inherited - A sweeping...

  Susie Murphy

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  An extraordinary bequest alters their fate… 
  In the winter of 1846, Cormac and Bridget receive two letters that will change their lives forever. Lord Bewley has died and left Bewley Hall to Cormac, while potato blight has struck the Oakleigh Estate, driving the tenants to appeal to Bridget for help. With their world turned upside down, they decide to leave America and cross the Atlantic to meet the challenges of their pressing responsibilities. 
  As for their daughter Emily, she faces a choice of her own: will she go with her family or stay in America for her art...and for Rory? 
  Heading towards new horizons, they must all strive to re-establish themselves while hampered by distrust and prejudice on multiple fronts. When separation once again plunges a member of the family into grave danger, will they be able to distinguish friend from foe? 
  A Class Inherited is the sixth book in Susie Murphy's historical fiction series A Matter of Class. The story continues in the seventh book, A Class Liberated. 
  Find out more at www.susiemurphywrites.com.

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  The Star on the Grave

  Linda Margolin Royal

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  There is more than one way to save a life … 
  In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismissed and disappears into obscurity. Three decades later, in Australia, Rachael Margolin, her father and her grandmother live disconnected from one another and haunted by unspoken tragedies.  
  When Rachel announces her engagement to a Greek Orthodox man, it detonates a long-held secret. The Margolins are Jewish, and her family has concealed their identity from her and the world. But why? As Rachel struggles to understand this deception, an opportunity arrives to visit Chiune Sugihara, the man who risked his life to save them during World War II. Rachel becomes determined to meet him, but will a journey to Japan, and the secrets it uncovers, heal the Margolins or fracture them for good?  
  An extraordinary novel inspired by the true story of Chiune Sugihara, and the thousands of people – including the author – who owe him their lives.

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  The Jam Maker

  Mary-Lou Stephens

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  Jam is sweet but it can also burn. 
   
  Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory. 
   
  Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be cast out onto the streets. 
   
  As the secrets and lies grow, Harriet is driven to more and more desperate choices. Choices that will end with a dangerous secret which, if discovered, could destroy not only her life but the lives of those she loves and protects. 
   
  Intertwined with the fascinating history of the Tasmanian jam industry and the striking historical figure Henry Jones, The Jam Maker is a tale of danger, deceit and the desperate measures one woman will take to succeed in love and life.

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  The Nationalists

  Vivian Stuart

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  The twenty-first book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams.
   
  The fires of nationalism are being kindled across the continent – especially in the hearts of the young.
   
  The children of The Seafarers and The Mariners are growing up in a young country only just coming to nationhood. Some cry for unity while others raise the spectre of race hatred and violence. It is hard to see how these young Australians could ever realise their dream of one free and mighty land.

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  Boudicca - The Defiant Warrior...

  Christopher Allen

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  "Boudicca the Defiant Warrior Queen" reimagines the legendary Celtic rebellion as a triumphant tale of freedom over tyranny. The story begins with the death of King Prasutagus, whose widow Boudicca faces Roman treachery when procurator Decianus Catus arrives to claim the Iceni kingdom as imperial property. When Boudicca protests, Roman soldiers brutally assault her daughters and publicly flog the queen herself, sparking a fury that will reshape Britain. 
  Transformed by divine blessing from the war goddess Andraste, Boudicca becomes more than mortal - a warrior queen blessed with supernatural strength and tactical brilliance. She innovates deadly scythe-blade chariots that become her signature weapons, their curved steel cutting through Roman ranks like wheat before the harvest. Her magnificent presence - towering height, flowing red-gold hair, ice-blue eyes blazing with divine fire - draws warriors from across Britain to her cause. 
  The rebellion begins with the spectacular destruction of Camulodunum, where Boudicca's chariots smash through the gates and her warriors burn the hated temple of Claudius. Her tactical genius shines as she outmaneuvers Roman expectations, using Celtic mobility and knowledge of the terrain against rigid Roman formations. 
  Her greatest victory comes against the Legio IX Hispana, where she employs a brilliant three-pronged attack that destroys the entire legion. The romantic subplot develops with Brennus of the Brigantes, a rugged chieftain whose admiration for Boudicca grows into deep love, though both remain focused on the greater cause of freedom. 
  The climax occurs at Watling Street, where Governor Suetonius attempts to trap the Celtic army in a narrow valley. But Boudicca turns the trap against him, using hidden flanking forces to attack from three directions simultaneously. Her scythe-blade chariots lead a devastating charge that shatters Roman discipline, while her divine blessing protects her from enemy weapons.

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  Yesterday's Spy

  Len Deighton

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  "Deighton at his best" —Evening Standard 
   
   
   
  Steve Champion—flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War—is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumors he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he'd rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion's oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It's time to reopen the file on yesterday's spy, whatever the consequences. 
   
   
   
  "Tough, well-written and extremely readable" —Daily Mail

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