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  Publication date UK 22/4/21 book 309 pages I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review. all my reviews are honest. Synopsis  After a roof-fall killed his best friend, ten-year old Harold ran away from the dreary underground coal mines of the Midlands. Lads so young as he could be entered into the Royal Navy, and he found a home. It was better grub that he was used to, and the adaptable and clever Harold worked with a will. He rose to Able Seaman, and when a battle thinned the officer-trainee ranks, he came aft as the lowest of the low, a midshipman. But he would rise no further, his common birth saw to that, so he resigned and took to the merchant ships. Fourteen years later, April 1814, we find Harold entering service with the merchantman "The Good Harvest", bound for Sydney with iron settlers goods and a parcel of transported convicts to top off the lading. The voyage starts well, then typus ("gaol fever...

  Publication date UK 8/12/22 book 426 pages I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review. all my reviews are honest. Synopsis   The only way you’ll leave Auschwitz is through the chimney. The words still rang in Agnes Markx’s head as she left the Judenramp and the hive of activity around the train behind. As a nurse assigned to Block 10, she realizes the stories of the horrors transpiring here weren’t exaggerated. Now an unwilling accomplice in the Nazi doctors’ medical experiments, she vows to save as many women under her care as possible. Electrician Joel Kozak has access to all areas of the gargantuan camp. When the underground camp resistance reaches out to him one day, he discovers his appointment wasn’t by accident. As a stoker in Birkenau’s crematoria, Samson Tarski witnesses more death in an hour than most people in a lifetime. The thought of stepping into the gas chambers and ending his struggle is always ...

  Publication date UK 30/3/23 audio time 13h 22m book 428 pages I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review. all my reviews are honest. Synopsis  There is a fury in England that none shall suppress - and when it breaks forth it will shake the throne' 1264 Storm clouds are gathering as Simon de Montfort and the barons of the realm challenge the power of Henry III. The barons demand reform; the crown demands obedience. England is on the brink of civil war. Adam de Norton, a young squire devoted to the virtues of chivalry, longs only to be knighted, and to win back his father's lands. Then a bloody hunting accident leaves him with a new master: the devilish Sir Robert de Dunstanville, who does not hesitate to use the blackest stratagems in pursuit of victory. Following Robert overseas, Adam is introduced to the ruthless world of the tournament, where knights compete for glory and riches, and his new master's metho...