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Saltblood

by Francesca de Tores (£16.99, HB, Bloomsbury)

Much of Mary Read’s life is shrouded in mystery and myths, but what we do know is that she was a remarkable woman. In this fictionalisation of her life we begin in 1685, when Mary is born as her half-brother is dying. To continue to claim inheritance from Mark’s paternal grandparents, her mother decides Mary will become Mark. From becoming a

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