Company of Liars by Karen Maitland by Gavin Bailey

Company of Liars is a well written historical novel set at the time of the Great Plague in Europe, 1348. The disease has just reached the shores of England and the populace are starting to panic as it spreads across the country, sparing no-one. Although this is the background, the tale essentially

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Review – Scarecrow in Gray by Paul Lappen

Scarecrow in Gray, Barry D. Yelton, 2006, ISBN 9780595401857 Francis Yelton (actual ancestor of the author) is a reluctant participant in the last months of the Civil War. He would much rather stay on his North Carolina farm, but, he also does not want to be known as the 19th Century equivalent o

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