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|author= David BarbareeMinette Walters|title= DeposedThe Last Hours|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AIn June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cellIgnorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect himthe disease rages through the country. He is now crippled and deprived On the estate of powerDevelish, left completely on Lady Anne Develish took control of the edge future of despair with the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a frightened young slave named Marcus as marriage for his only companiondaughter. Ten years later Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and it is Emperor Vespasian who wears when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the purple. Things may have settled since plague she ordered that the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus is plagued by worry about plots estate refuse entry to murder anyone, including her husband and his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; it is a city full of falsehoods and intrigues with the entourage, for fear of rebellion lurking beneath that they would bring the surface. Furthermore, a man who used to be emperor still lives – a blind man who everyone believes disease to be dead. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himher people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626721760632139</amazonuk>

|author= Diney CosteloeLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title= The Married GirlsSixteen Trees of the Somme|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In While his grandfather lived the small Somerset village past was an area of Wynsdowncertainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, Charlotte Shepherd having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is happily married to farmer Billy. She arrived different from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home. Meanwhilewhat he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, the squirehis mother's fighter pilot sonname, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming... whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphnethat's past, but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built lifewithout looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past Edvard is coming back in determined to solve the shape of fellow refugeepuzzle, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte a determination that will always care for take him, but Harry's return disrupts the village quiet away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849761210857056069</amazonuk>

|author= Philip KerrToby Clements|title= Prussian BlueKingmaker: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases 1470 dawns and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member the next chapters of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that War of the best thing he could do for himself at that time was Roses are ready to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormannplay out. So when he is assigned to solve a murder King Edward thinks that the future has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, been settled but for his owntreachery is still lurking. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, Meanwhile Katherine and he hopes Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripoledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, for short) he just might get luckyincluding their lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481178089466X</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan CollishawP F Chisholm|title= Guns in the North (The Song of the StorkSir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved a rare feat 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – a novel set amidst in order to become Deputy Warden of the horrors of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from human suffering, the world he's left behind but does not drown in it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850791901786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Alan KennedyZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=A Time to Tell LiesThe House with the Stained-Glass Window

|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues Marianna, an opera singer in the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In the autumn soon-to-be Ukrainian city of 1942Lviv, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to is mistakenly shot dead at a stately home political rally in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skillsthe dying days of the Soviet Union. After this first encounterThis novel begins with both anger and hope, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spyas Marianna's life coffin is dangerous covered in the illegal blue and unpredictableyellow flag, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent and her death seems to collect Simone, herald the birth of a Special Operations Executive agentnew nation. It's AlexBut the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing period – a German girl who knows he has must learn how to be a false passportwoman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09932023220857057138</amazonuk>

|author=Alex NyeK J Whittaker|title=For My SinsFalse Lights|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1586: Mary StuartCornwall, Queen 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of ScotsWellington at the Battle of Waterloo, has time to look back and his ex-wife Josephine presides over her past life as she sitsFrench-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. MaryWellington's life hasn't been one of totally pampered royaltyformer intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Growing up Together, they become embroiled in France, away from her mother, widowed a web of treachery and then returning espionage as plans are laid to Scotland to claim free Wellington from secret captivity in the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary the woman, Mary the Catholic Scilly Isles and Mary lead an uprising against the political force continue through three marriagesFrench occupation. In a country rife with traitors, an unsolved murder Hester and the thwarted desire to serve her people. Now Crow know it's come is impossible to play such a game as this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= The Magician's LieSeven Dead|rating=4|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the most famous female illusionist of her daycourage. However, needs must, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a man in half on stageshuttered window. ''.. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe. When Ardenhe might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?''s husband 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 a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is found dead later that nightpursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, the answer seems clearThomas Hazeldean, most of all who also happens to young policeman Virgil Holtbe a journalist. Captured and taken into custody, all seems set for ArdenFascinated by Ted's swift confession. But she has story (and a different story possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to tell. Even handcuffed investigate this curious case and aloneits assortment of odd clues, Arden is far from powerlessincluding a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindinga mysterious note written by one of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999670712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Helen DunmoreSalt Creek|titleauthor=Birdcage WalkLucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith The first chapter of his life's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution'Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, BritainEngland, including Diner, fears it may spreadin 1874. This puts Lizzie in Hester Finch is a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets respected and ideas reasonably wealthy member of egalitarianism for and her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to allher adolescence, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of spent on Salt Creek Station in the sort that fanned the French flamesremote South Australian Coorong region. However, thatHester feels 's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husbandhas never felt so alive as then, when we had so little's past of which she's unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919594031910709417</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownJamie Ford|title=The Witchfinder's SisterLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins is good at his chosen career: seekingAt the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, testing and convicting those filling people with the Devil in themanticipation about things to come. His sisterOne visitor, Alicehowever, doesn't realise has his mind firmly focused on the full connotations of his actions until, widowed and pregnant, she returns homepast. Alice Ernest Young is grateful to be allowed to live under Matthew's roof but then watches helping his sinister finger of suspicion point in unexpected places. This daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a man changed from the story about a young immigrant boy that Alice used to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making her who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the WitchfinderWorld's SisterFair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780330749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonNicola Pryce|title= The Valentine HouseCaptain's Girl

|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914Last year, Sir Anthony ValentineBookbag reviewed, a keen mountaineerand thoroughly enjoyed, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their chalet[[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], high a swashbuckling historical romance set in the French Alpspicturesque Cornwall. There, for Now we have the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one pleasure of reading the 'uglies' much- village girls employed as servants and pickedanticipated sequel. This time, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is the start of story focuses on a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind neighbour of farming. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appearPolcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, with who has been engaged to a curiously absent daughter no one talks aboutcruel man that she does not love. It will be decades - disrupted by warOne fateful night, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers she runs away to the key Polcarrow house to the mystery. And in 1976beg them for help, and the year Sir Anthony's greatpivotal events of that night have far-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use itreaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040281782398856</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkHawa L Crickmore|title= LarchfieldAcross the Ocean|rating= 54|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a A young poetcage fighter, Dora FieldingMartin Grandson, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of was diagnosed with a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being rare genetic disorder which required a personbone-marrow transplant, preferably from a wife, sibling. Only recently he'd been a motherfit young man, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As in the battle begins for her very sense prime of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds but now he was suffering from a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book rare type of poetry published, should bone cancer: without the transplant he would be embarking on success paralysed for life and society in Londonmight be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Instead, Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness car crash and suspected - rightly - of homosexualitythere were no siblings or other close relatives. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time His girlfriend, Celia, even as he fights his deepest fearswas not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864819281524666971</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesM J Tjia|title=Before the RainsShe Be Damned|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction) |summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India 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 feed her desire claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to returninvestigate. Therefore in 1930, following With the death assistance of her husbandtrusty Chinese maid, when the British government commission her Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chancetruth. What she doesn't realise But when Amah is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the idea. Living within implicated in the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for herbrutal plot, as is JayHeloise must reconsider whom she can trust, an Indian price who shows Eliza before the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlykiller strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Sarah Franklin|title=The Longest NightShelter|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma Connie Granger has a philosophy – ''let the dead restescaped her bombed-out city home, and love finding refuge in the living'Women's Timber Corps. The problem with thatFor her, as this remote community must now serve a 96-year-oldsecret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is that there are too few living left, and so while haunted by his memories. In the love remains she will go through her memoriesforest camp, taking he finds a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events strange kind of her lifefreedom. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait for peace, and wait for him in vain, moving to Holland and finding Their meeting signals new lovebeginnings. But as they are drawn together, and so on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. The memories Old certainties are coming strongly here crumbling, and both must now, as Emma is waiting make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for at least one of her two sons freedom? What will they fight to visit, and then she will die…protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560851785762990</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyJane Johnson|title= VindolandaCourt of Lions|rating= 35|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.5|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Watson|title= You Die When You Die|rating= 4

|summary= AD 98: in Finnbogi the northern fields Boggy and his tribe of Britannia lies Vindolanda, mushroom men (Vikings) must take a Roman auxiliary base situated on the edge of road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the Roman worldgreatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Far from the prosperity and decadence Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash of Rome, the wild cultures and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against potentially the destruction end of Rome and its armiesthe world. In the midst of this destruction is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion who has been given the task of keeping When the peace in this desolate edge Queen of the known world. But life in Roman Britain is full of danger and betrayal at every turn, and Ferox knows it will take more than courage says your tribe has to overcome what lies aheadbe exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746840356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Alison Weir|title=The Yellow HouseSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=34|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=If you were Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the needy kind, would you really join courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education in the drumming-out ways 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 the elite, it could also ensure a mountain? The main character in this novel doesgood marriage. But Unfortunately he has something hasn't reckoned on the ideas that will really get him notedone of them, well-thought-ofAnne, includedpicks up and as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangement. He has come to Yet the south of France reality turns out to set up an artists' collectivebe different, where he can live and work alongside his counterparts, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful art. In fact driving a much-respected guest is wedge through her family on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guest's name is, after all, Gauguina road leading to dark tragedy. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320563147222762X</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Martha Conway|title=Retribution RoadThe Floating Theatre|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manWhen young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, he was something else: a dangerous manshe finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of actors.'' IfShe finds friends, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was himand possibly the promise of more. Working as a soldier for But cruising the East India Company in border between the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in Confederate South and the 1850s, he's tasked free' North is fraught with taking danger. For the sake of a boat debt that must be repaid, May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of unknown prospects up darkness, across the Irrawaddy to try river and combat local warlord Pagan Minon, along the underground railroad. It doesnBut as May't go well – s secrets become harder to start withkeep, he's supposed she learns she must endanger those now dear to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way her.  And to having save the knowledge lives of the mission he needs firstothers, only for all hell to break looseshe must risk her own... 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>08570537441785762907</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunJenny Ashcroft|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Beneath a Burning Sky|rating=3.54

|summary= A story like this needs Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a strong central character; it needs a warrior who bitter-sweet experience. On the one hand, she has convictionbeen reunited with her estranged sister Clara, heart and honourthe pair have formed a deep and loving bond. Hakan On the other, she has all these in abundancean 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, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, but he didn't get them easilydaily. In this coming As a lady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means of age taleescape, he only finding solace in the company of her sister and friends. But when her dear sister goes on a quest mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, it is up to Olivia to find himself after experiencing try and solve the most tremendous mystery of betrayalsher disappearance before it is too late. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999410751565032</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaConn Iggulden|title=The Sins Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of SoldiersEngland|rating=4.5

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join The young Dunstan shows no sign of the British army and World War I for a different reason than most of his fellow Americanssainthood he'll later attain. He's Son of a journalist wanting the uncensored inside story Wessex thane and sent to send back home; a deadly enterprise asmonastery for education, if the Germans donthis isn't get hima lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the Brits may deem big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she considers to be a spy. Unperturbed he carries his plan through miracle and finds himself on the French front monks consider another in 1916a long line of excuses. He has an ally Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in British officer David Alexandertheir courts, which is just as well since not all his enemies are across no manthe book's landtitle suggests. The two men have a lot Whether we believe in commonthe miracles or not, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approaches.Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901820718181441</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanSimon Edge|title=ViperThe Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed ''s Blood (Master The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. And, speaking of War)God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Shadow Queen|rating=4.5

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of Edward IIIroyal blood but she's greatest weaponsfrom a family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, bringing him potentially head to head against 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the Dauphin once againinfamous Montague plot. HoweverJoan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, faced King Edward III with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as all the chances advantages and attributes of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armiesprincess. There is a light at the end Yet, much to her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of the tunnel thoughthese attributes. Blackstone is to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French KingJoan's daughter Isabelle to Milan and head strong feist takes her weddingon a varied journey in life. Having said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) and a son destined for the light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming lance. IsabelleEnglish throne means that it's prospective groom is also been one heck of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughter. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744631848455070</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsPatricia Falvey|title=CorpusThe Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may Rosie Killeen would be unconnectedfriends forever. However this is England in 1936, Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves social chasm between those who live in preparation for the coming conflictHouse and those, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side youlike Rosie're on)s family, who have been brought up merely to serve them. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle The days of this accidentally innocence are coming to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure hean end in many ways. Soon, as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's not walking awayladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626131786490625</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinElaine Everest|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepThe Butlins Girls

|summary=Paris, February 1887, and work on the foundations of Eiffel's daring tower is about Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to beginstart her new job as a Butlins auntie. Engineer Emile NouguierBehind the smiles and confident appearance, taking photographs of she hides a secret; she has taken the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances job to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallaceescape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and his it turns out that they each have their own foundations reasons for wanting a fresh start . Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to shiftdiscover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. Over the next two years Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at the tower slowly rises in the Champ de Marscamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emile's love for each other. In a world where more than bustles Molly and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able to break free of her oppressive future, new friends face new threats and given dangers that may threaten their different social strata, can Emile renew-shape his?found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917221447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournGeraint Jones|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)Blood Forest|rating= 45

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose to be an investigator by professionFelix. She was, first and foremost, a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled the world looking for exciting butterfly specimens The lucky one. However, He doesn't feel especially lucky when her latest expedition was cancelled due to an unfortunate incident with a giant tortoise, Veronica and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up he staggers out into the challenge of a murder investigation as an interesting diversion. The case seemed to an open-grove and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused finds twelve of murdering his pregnant mistress, Artemisiacomrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He was discovered at felt even less lucky when the scenesoldiers arrived, covered in her blood and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crimeRoman cavalry. He would hang by the end of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find the might have run, but he knew he'real' killerd never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761580718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesDominic Smith|title=Counting the CostThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating=45|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1794 If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and we meet our young protagonist, MariaVermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in desperate circumstancesstages. Alone and terrified, she has concluded that her only option is to take her own life by throwing herself into Framing the novel as the surging river waters. Months previouslystory of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, she was cruelly violated by Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the master main contours of the house where she worked his characters and now, in the advanced stages three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of her pregnancy, the future seems bleakway through. Luckily, a pair Sara is one of gypsy the few women find Maria artists of the period and take her in. Following painting is of children skating on a traumatic labourfrozen canal, Maria becomes desperately ill her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and when she recovers, her baby he is gone. Alone again, Maria the patent lawyer from whom it is free to start a new lifestolen in 1950s Manhattan. With Ellie Shipley forged a clever disguise, she becomes copy of the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' painting in her postgraduate student years and takes in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a position gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as a housekeeper for one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the village rectorcomposition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899139192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerCaro Fraser|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunSummer House Party|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people deemed to have meet at a backward attitude country house party. Within three years, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, but he resents the wealth and outlookeasy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. But Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what do we know of about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the original Neanderthals from over 200Jewish outsider,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologistsMadeleine, archaeologists restless and historians dissatisfied with the story of Strong Armsher role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, his family and their struggle to survive host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a very effectivepractised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and informative waybeyond.Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715451786691485</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Harffy|title=The Willow KingSerpent Sword|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. HeIt's AD 633 and Albion is a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in the seventeenth century, aiming divided island made up of petty warlords who want to study morebe treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. But things aren't going well for him – Romans are a long-standing illness seems to be returning, memory that have entered into myth and the weather and roads souls of Albion are awful, he's late – torn between the old Gods and his only friend, a parakeet, won't even survive the first two days ashorenew Christ. He's entering a weird It is in this world, what's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasthat we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Can his modern ideas, Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened and thinking about honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the soul, bear him through killer of his course?brother and seeks to become a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401786692406</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossAntonia Senior|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Tyrant's Shadow|rating=54

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books in the series''Treason's Daughter''. 305AD: Castus AureliusPatience lives with her widowed brother, following the death of his predecessorWilliam, has been promoted helping to commander care for his son Richard (or vir perfecctissiumsnicknamed Blackberry) of . Despite the Roman forces at Civil war ending, the Rhinetimes are still uncertain. He's also been ordered Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a parliament of rebels refusing to go to take Crispus, Constantine's son and heir, the electorate for the character-building experienceratification. That complicates matters as when Castus isnWilliam sees this problem at close quarters once he't trying s effectively forced to keep Crispus alive, hebecome Cromwell's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophia Tobin|title= The Vanishing|rating=3|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1814. In the middle of the Yorkshire Moors legal advisor in an isolated spot lies White Windows, a house shadowed in mystery atmosphere poisoned by espionage and intriguereligious factions. Living in this desolate household is Marcus Twentyman However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a hard drinking and complicated man and his sistercharismatic preacher, the hardened widow Hesterall becomes clearer for her at least. Brought to White Windows is Annaleigh Meanwhile Sam Challoner, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be the new housekeeper to the TwentymanWilliam's brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that the hope of leaving her painful past behind herfight at sea is better than peace at home. At first, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled in a web of conspiracy and danger, leaving her trapped and more alone than everleast when you're privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516031782396616</amazonuk>