Win a copy of The Darkening Globe by Naomi Kelsey in this week's Fabulous book competition
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SET in Elizabethan England, this creepy gothic thriller will keep you enthralled.
When Beatrice's husband returns from the New World, he brings back a strange woman and a painted globe, which appears to foretell a series of untimely deaths.
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