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|author= Elaine EverestMinette Walters|title= The Butlins GirlsLast Hours|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in Skegness the demesne after her husband had ridden off to start her new job as try and secure a Butlins auntiemarriage for his daughter. Behind Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the smiles estate and confident appearance, when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she hides a secret; she has taken ordered that the job estate refuse entry to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in anyone, including her chalet-mates Bunty husband and Plumhis entourage, and it turns out for fear that they each have their own reasons would bring the disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for wanting a fresh startEdvard. Meanwhile At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, Molly is shocked having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson light showing Edvard his family history is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. Is different from what he really as suave as 'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his onmother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-screen persona? And why Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is he working at determined to solve the camp anyway? As hidden puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets become discovered, Molly .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and her new friends face new threats the next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to play out. King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. Meanwhile Katherine and dangers Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that may ledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, including their new-found freedomlives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447295536178089466X</amazonuk>

|author= Geraint JonesP F Chisholm|title= Blood ForestGuns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The lucky oneScottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. He doesnThis isn't feel especially lucky easy when every local he staggers out into the grove comes across has an affinity and finds twelve a heritage of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible wayscrime to some degree. He felt even less lucky when For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, woman he loves but he knew doesn't know what he'd never make itll do about that yet either. He stepped out Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to face whatever came nextbe on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181848151786694719</amazonuk>

|author= Dominic SmithZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosHouse with the Stained-Glass Window|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinatingMarianna, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass an opera singer in how the soon-to work up -be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a canvas political rally in stagesthe dying days of the Soviet Union. Framing the This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the story of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingillegal blue and yellow flag, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and her death seems to herald the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth birth of the way througha new nation. Sara is one of But the few women artists day of the period and her painting funeral is also the day of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged first period – a girl who must learn how to be a copy of the painting woman in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre this time of a gathering storm which threatens drastic change, with no mother to destroy guide her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely along the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will followway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X0857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserK J Whittaker|title= The Summer House PartyFalse Lights

|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= In Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the gloriously hot summer course of 1936, a group history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of people meet Wellington at a country house party. Within three yearsthe Battle of Waterloo, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and goodhis ex-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoirwife Josephine presides over French-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimeroccupied England. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through thatCornwall erupts into open rebellion, wouldn't she? And what about Dianaand young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, PaulWellington's beautiful sister, Charles Asherformer intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the Jewish outsidercatastrophic defeat. Together, Madeleine, restless they become embroiled in a web of treachery and dissatisfied with her role espionage as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in his power as the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a practised seducer. As these guests gathercountry rife with traitors, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war Hester and beyondCrow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long... Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914851786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= The Serpent SwordSeven Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= ItTed Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'s AD 633 ' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and Albion a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a divided island made up of petty warlords passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who want also happens to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangstersa journalist. Romans are Fascinated by Ted's story (and a memory that have entered into myth possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and the souls its assortment of Albion are torn between odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old Gods and the new Christ. It is in this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened cricket ball and honourable warrior through a brutal rite mysterious note written by one of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warriorvictims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924060712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Antonia SeniorSalt Creek|titleauthor=The Tyrant's ShadowLucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for The first chapter of ''TreasonSalt Creek's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brotheropens in Chichester, WilliamEngland, helping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, the times are still uncertainin 1874. Cromwell Hester Finch is increasingly annoyed with a parliament respected and reasonably wealthy member of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratificationher community. William sees this problem at close quarters once heBut she can's effectively forced t stop her thoughts wandering back to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoneradolescence, William's brother spent on Salt Creek Station in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that the fight at sea is better than peace at homeremote South Australian Coorong region. At least Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when youwe had so little''re privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966161910709417</amazonuk>

|author= David BarbareeJamie Ford|title= DeposedLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating= 4.5

|summary= AAt the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cellThe Space Needle dominates the landscape, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn filling people with anticipation about things to protect himcome. He is now crippled and deprived of powerOne visitor, however, left completely has his mind firmly focused on the edge of despair past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companion. Ten years later and it story she is Emperor Vespasian who wears the purple. Things may have settled since the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus is plagued by worry about plots to murder his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Romewriting for her newspaper; it is a city full of falsehoods and intrigues with the fear of rebellion lurking beneath the surface. Furthermore, story about a man young immigrant boy who used to be emperor still lives – was given away as a prize in a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himraffle at the World's Fair in 1909. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626720749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Diney CosteloeNicola Pryce|title= The Married GirlsCaptain's Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary=WynsdownLast year, 1949. In the small Somerset village of WynsdownBookbag reviewed, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home. Meanwhilethoroughly enjoyed, the squire[[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's fighter pilot sonDaughter]], Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée swashbuckling historical romance set in towpicturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. Daphne is beautifulThis time, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the warstory focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Felix knows some of Daphne's pastMiss Celia Cavendish, but she who has worked hard been engaged to conceal a cruel man that which could unravel her carefully built lifeshe does not love. For CharlotteOne fateful night, too, a dangerous past is coming back in she runs away to the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care Polcarrow house to beg them for himhelp, but Harry's return disrupts and the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may pivotal events of that night have ended, but far-reaching consequences for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849761211782398856</amazonuk>

|author= Philip KerrHawa L Crickmore|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Across the Ocean|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, he was stationed in Berlin as diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some highbone-ranking Nazismarrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Although never Only recently he'd been a Nazi party member himself (fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from a known member rare type of bone cancer: without the Social Democratic Party), transplant he understood that would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the best thing next twelve weeks if he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof parents had died in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly a car crash and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his ownthere were no siblings or other close relatives. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect His girlfriend, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich KorschCelia, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckywas not a match. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17842964811524666971</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan CollishawM J Tjia|title= The Song of the StorkShe Be Damned|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime (Historical) |summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a rare feat – a novel set amidst loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the horrors assistance of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away from human sufferingher trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, but does not drown Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in it eitherthe brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Alan KennedySarah Franklin|title=A Time to Tell LiesShelter|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyConnie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by Alan Kennedy]]his memories. In the autumn of 1942forest camp, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to he finds a stately home in Scotland, where strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounterdrawn together, Alex the world outside their forest haven is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine againbeing torn apart. The spy's Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all-defining choice. Six weeks later, though, <br>What price will they meet up again in southwest France, where pay for freedom? What will they have been sent fight to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09932023221785762990</amazonuk>

|author=Alex NyeJane Johnson|title=For My SinsCourt of Lions|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1586: Mary StuartKate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, Queen one of Scotsthe most beautiful places on earth, has time to look back over her past life she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's happy with her new life hasn– but how could she be? Kate't been one of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in France, away from her mothers alone, widowed afraid and then returning hiding under a false name. And fate is about to Scotland bring her face-to claim the throne before she -face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was even 19, her struggle with fate started earlyinscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The tensions between Mary paper was folded and pressed into one of the womanAlhambra's walls. There it has lain, Mary undisturbed by the Catholic and Mary tides of history – the political force continue through three marriagesFall of Granada, an unsolved murder the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the thwarted desire to serve her people. Now it's come to this prison cell but while therefragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life, there's still hope…forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871786694336</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterAngus Watson|title= The Magician's LieYou Die When You Die|rating=4|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is Finnbogi the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick Boggy and his tribe of sawing mushroom men (Vikings) must take a man road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in half on stage. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axea clash of cultures and potentially the end of the world. When Arden's husband is found dead later that night, the answer seems clear, most Queen of all to young policeman Virgil Holt. Captured and taken into custody, all seems set for Arden's swift confession. But she the known world says your tribe has a different story to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingbe exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999670356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Helen DunmoreAlison Weir|title=Birdcage WalkSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=54

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellThomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royalty. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached Not only does this give them an education in the zenith ways of his life's work: building the elite, it could also ensure a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgegood marriage. In a time of turbulence as France reaches Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the dawn ideas that one of revolution, Britainthem, including DinerAnne, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother picks up and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism as for and marriage… Anne is determined to all, including womenmarry for love not through some paternal arrangement. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of Yet the sort that fanned the French flames. Howeverreality turns out to be different, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is driving a darkness in wedge through her husband's past of which she's unawarefamily on a road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403147222762X</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownMartha Conway|title=The Witchfinder's SisterFloating Theatre|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins When young seamstress May Bedloe is good at his chosen career: seekingleft alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, testing she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and convicting those with needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the Devil in themcolourful troupe of actors. His sisterShe finds friends, Alice, doesnand possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free't realise North is fraught with danger. For the full connotations sake of his actions untila debt that must be repaid, widowed May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and pregnanton, she returns homealong the underground railroad. Alice is grateful But as May's secrets become harder to be allowed keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to live under Matthew's roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point in unexpected placesher. This is a man changed from  And to save the boy that Alice used to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable lives of killing hundreds of people and making others, she must risk her the Witchfinder's Sisterown...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780331785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonJenny Ashcroft|title= The Valentine HouseBeneath a Burning Sky

|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the one hand, Sir Anthony Valentineshe has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed a keen mountaineerdeep and loving bond. On the other, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, who only married her to spite Clara, who had refused him previously. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, arrives with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his family to spend the summer in their chalethands, daily. As a lady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means of escape, high only finding solace in the French Alpscompany of her sister and friends. There, for But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one bustling streets of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and pickedAlexandria, it is believed, up to Olivia to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde try and solve the mystery of her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change the start Fate of England|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign of the sainthood he'll later attain. Son of a Wessex thane and sent to a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strangemonastery for education, exciting peoplethis isn't a lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, far removed from intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the hard grind of farmingbig break. Except Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she soon finds considers to be a miracle and the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with monks consider another in a curiously absent daughter no one talks aboutlong line of excuses. It Yet Dunstan will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And holding responsible positions in 1976their courts, as the year Sir Anthonybook's great-great grandson comes to visittitle suggests. Whether we believe in the miracles or not, she must decide whether to use it.Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040280718181441</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkSimon Edge|title= LarchfieldThe Hopkins Conundrum

|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when Tim Cleverley inherits a young poetfailing pub in Wales, Dora Fieldingwhich he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, moves to Helensburgh on who composed ''The Wreck of the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challengedDeutschland'' nearby. Newly married In Victorian England, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life that combines family full of confusion and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a personcontradiction, but discovers a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown calling for poetry that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes threatens to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way overrule his calling to escape reality altogetherGod. Another poetAnd, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book speaking of poetry publishedGod, should be embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet new world – only to find themselves in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears.more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864819281785630334</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesAnne O'Brien|title=Before the RainsThe Shadow Queen

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of India that have feed her desire to returnroyal blood but she's from a family tainted by treachery. Therefore Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in 1930, following the death infamous Montague plot. However Joan has grown up under the protection of her husbandcousin, when King Edward III with all the British government commission her to photograph scenes advantages and attributes of Indian life, she jumps at the chancea princess. What she doesnYet, much to her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the ideaone of these attributes. Living within the SultanaJoan's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for head strong feist takes her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real Indiaon a varied journey in life. HoweverHaving said that, three husbands, attractions are sometimes dangerous five marriages (technically) and even deadly.a son destined for the English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870811848455070</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Patricia Falvey|title=The Longest NightGirls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – Ireland 1900: Ennismore House''let the dead rest, s young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and love the living''Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. The problem with that, Rosie soon comes to know better as a 96-year-old, is that there are too few living left, and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking 's a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, social chasm between those who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait for peace, and wait for him live in vain, moving to Holland the House and finding new lovethose, and so on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of warlike Rosie's family, from rationing right who have been brought up merely to exile, death and survivalserve them. The memories days of innocence are coming strongly here and nowto an end in many ways. Soon, as Emma is waiting the cry for at least one of her two sons to visitIrish Home Rule becomes louder, and then she there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will die…never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560851786490625</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyElaine Everest|title= VindolandaThe Butlins Girls|rating= 3.54

|summary= AD 98: Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the northern fields of Britannia lies Vindolandasmiles and confident appearance, she hides a Roman auxiliary base situated on secret; she has taken the edge of the Roman worldjob to escape escalating problems at home. Far from the prosperity She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and decadence of RomePlum, the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against the destruction of Rome and its armiesit turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. In the midst of this destruction Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion who has been given working as an entertainment adviser at the task of keeping the peace in this desolate edge of the worldcamp. But life in Roman Britain Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is full of danger and betrayal he working at every turnthe camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and Ferox knows it will take more than courage to overcome what lies aheaddangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746841447295536</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Geraint Jones|title=The Yellow HouseBlood Forest|rating=35|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=If you were the needy kind, would you really join in the drumming-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get a feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? Felix. The main character in this novel doeslucky one. But He doesn't feel especially lucky when he has something that will really get him noted, well-thought-staggers out into the grove and finds twelve of, includedhis comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He has come to felt even less lucky when the south of France to set up an artists' collective, where he can live and work alongside his counterpartssoldiers arrived, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful artRoman cavalry. In fact a much-respected guest is on his way nowHe might have run, so surely but he knew he can find kinship? The guest's name is, after all, Gauguind never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19073205630718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Dominic Smith|title=Retribution RoadThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'Sergeant Bowman wasn't just provides a hard man, he was something else: masterclass in how to work up a dangerous mancanvas in stages.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for Framing the novel as the story of a suicide missionseventeenth century Dutch painting, it was himDominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. Working as a soldier for Sara is one of the East India Company in few women artists of the ruralperiod and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in the 1850s, heMarty de Groot's tasked with taking family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a boat copy of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try painting in her postgraduate student years and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go well – in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to start with, hedestroy her reputation as one of Sydney's supposed to run foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until heauthor's forced his way to having equivalent of the knowledge delicate chalk lines used by painters of the mission he needs first, only for all hell Dutch Golden Age to break loosemark out the composition which will follow. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunCaro Fraser|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Summer House Party|rating=34.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A story like this needs In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a strong central character; it needs group of people meet at a warrior who has convictioncountry house party. Within three years, England will be at war, but for now, heart time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and honour. Hakan has all these in abundancegood-looking, but he didnresents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't get them easilyshe? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. In this coming of age taleAs these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, he goes on a quest to find himself after experiencing lasting through the most tremendous of betrayalswar and beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999411786691485</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaMatthew Harffy|title=The Sins of SoldiersSerpent Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Anson Scott wants to join the British army It's AD 633 and World War I for Albion is a different reason than most divided island made up of his fellow Americanspetty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. He's Romans are a journalist wanting memory that have entered into myth and the uncensored inside story to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if souls of Albion are torn between the Germans don't get him, the Brits may deem him a spy. Unperturbed he carries his plan through old Gods and finds himself on the French front in 1916new Christ. He has an ally It is in British officer David Alexander, which is just this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as well since not all his enemies are across no man's landhe undertakes the classic hero’s journey. The two men have Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a lot in common, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them brutal rite of passage as he hunts the Somme approacheskiller of his brother and seeks to become a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901821786692406</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanAntonia Senior|title=ViperThe Tyrant's Blood (Master of War)Shadow|rating=54

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one of Edward IIIWarning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's greatest weaponsDaughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William, bringing him potentially head helping to head against the Dauphin once againcare for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). However, faced with an elongated stale mateDespite the Civil war ending, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armiestimes are still uncertain. There Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a light at the end parliament of the tunnel though. Blackstone is rebels refusing to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French King's daughter Isabelle to Milan and her weddingelectorate for ratification. Having said that, the light William sees this problem at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming lance. Isabelleclose quarters once he's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomaseffectively forced to become Cromwell' wife and daughter. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974463</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=Corpus|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A suicidal overdose s legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedreligious factions. However this is England in 1936when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a magnet charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)her at least. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure heMeanwhile Sam Challoner, William's not walking away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Beatrice Colin|title= To Capture What We Cannot Keep|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Paris, February 1887brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and work on realises that the foundations of Eiffel's daring tower fight at sea is about to beginbetter than peace at home. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs of the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, and his own foundations start to shift. Over the next two years as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de Mars, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emile At least when you's love for each otherre privateering you know who your enemy is. In a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able to break free of her oppressive future, and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917221782396616</amazonuk>