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Tom Sheen

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The Calculating Stars
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Shards of Earth
A Wizard of Earthsea
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road
The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes

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Although historical fiction isn't a genre I've any experience of prior to reading this book, I can certainly see the appeal. This represents a clearly well-researched but nevertheless fun and breezy tale set in the modern day, where spirits of the long-dead roam the titular Tower, watching the living with interest and amusement. I very much enjoyed the way the ghosts were front and centre in the plot, and that just because you've passed beyond the mortal veil doesn't mean you can't still develop as a person.
With mortal peril not an option, the tension in the story is instead wisely focused on what may be the slowest moving romance in history, and the figurative (and sadly not literal) haunting of protagonist Richard III by the princes who died whilst under his protection.
This is a book well worth a read, and worth praise in particular for its understatedly perfect ending (which I shall not spoil further).