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|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Minette Walters|title=Retribution RoadThe Last Hours

|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous manIn June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset.Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'' Ifd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was himthe disease rages through the country. Working as a soldier for On the East India Company in the rural, remoteestate of Develish, outlaw hotbeds Lady Anne Develish took control of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking a boat future of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and combat local warlord Pagan Minsecure a marriage for his daughter. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the rule over ruffians saved from estate and when Lady Anne realised the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having virulence of the knowledge of plague she ordered that the mission he needs first, only for all hell estate refuse entry to break loose. But get back he doesanyone, only to find that while including her husband and his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-onentourage, for fear that they would bring the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570537441760632139</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=34.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; it needs a warrior who has convictionWhile his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, heart and honourhaving survived the accident that killed his parents. Hakan Now his grandfather has all these in abundancedied revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, but he didnthe whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that't get them easilys without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. In this coming of age tale Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, he goes on a quest determination that will take him away from his native Norway to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous an area of betrayalsFrance synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999410857056069</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaToby Clements|title=The Sins of SoldiersKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join 1470 dawns and the next chapters of the British army and World War I for a different reason than most of his fellow Americans. He's a journalist wanting the uncensored inside story Roses are ready to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if the Germans don't get him, the Brits may deem him a spyplay out. Unperturbed he carries his plan through and finds himself on King Edward thinks that the French front in 1916. He future has an ally in British officer David Alexander, which been settled but treachery is just as well since not all his enemies are across no man's landstill lurking. The two men Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a lot in commonchance comment threaten all they have, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approachesincluding their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890182178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanP F Chisholm|title=Viper's Blood Guns in the North (Master of WarThe Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5

|summary=Bowman 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and commander Thomas Blackstone is one his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of Edward IIIthe West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to head against the Dauphin once againlawless. However, faced with This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for affinity and a greater chance heritage of starvation amongst the armiescrime to some degree. There is a light at For Robert the end of best thing about the tunnel though. Blackstone job is its proximity to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French Kingwoman he loves but he doesn's daughter Isabelle to Milan and her weddingt know what he'll do about that yet either. Having said Meanwhile he soon realises that, the light at the end of the tunnel may those who are supposed to be an oncoming lance. Isabelleon his side are plotting against him but they don's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomast realise what they' wife and daughterre up against. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744631786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=CorpusThe House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose and Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the murder dying days of upper class Cecil Langley the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and his wife are two events that may be unconnected. However this hope, as Marianna's coffin is England covered in 1936the illegal blue and yellow flag, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for her death seems to herald the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by birth of a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)new nation. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into But the middle day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this accidentally to begin time of drastic change, with but his curiosity has been piqued enough no mother to ensure he's not walking awayguide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626130857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinK J Whittaker|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepFalse Lights|rating= 4.5

|summary=ParisCornwall, February 1887, and work on 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the foundations course of Eiffel's daring tower is about to begin. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona WallaceBattle of Waterloo, and his own foundations start to shiftex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Over the next two years as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de MarsCornwall erupts into open rebellion, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emileyoung heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's love for each otherformer intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. In Together, they become embroiled in a world where more than bustles web of treachery and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able espionage as plans are laid to break free of her oppressive futureWellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917221786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)Seven Dead

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not choose to be an investigator by professionusually the housebreaking type. She was, first and foremost, a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled He lacked the world looking for exciting butterfly specimenscourage. However, when her latest expedition was cancelled due needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an unfortunate incident isolated house with a giant tortoiseshuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, Veronica but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up a woman. Fleeing the challenge of house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a murder investigation as an interesting diversionjournalist. The Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused its assortment of murdering his pregnant mistressodd clues, Artemisia. He was discovered at including a portrait shot through the sceneheart, covered in her blood an old cricket ball and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crime. He would hang a mysterious note written by the end one of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find the 'real' killervictims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761580712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Jemima BriggesSalt Creek|titleauthor=Counting the CostLucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary=The year is 1794 and we meet our young protagonistfirst chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, MariaEngland, in desperate circumstances1874. Alone Hester Finch is a respected and terrified, reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she has concluded that can't stop her only option is thoughts wandering back to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river waters. Months previously, she was cruelly violated by the master of the house where she worked and nowadolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the advanced stages of her pregnancy, the future seems bleakremote South Australian Coorong region. Luckily, a pair of gypsy women find Maria and take her in. Following a traumatic labourHester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, her baby is gone. Alone again, Maria is free to start a new life. With a clever disguise, she becomes the dowdy we had so little'Miss Dinchope' and takes a position as a housekeeper for the village rector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991391910709417</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerJamie Ford|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with people deemed anticipation about things to have a backward attitude and outlookcome. But what do we know of the original Neanderthals from over 200One visitor, however,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds has his mind firmly focused on the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with the a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle to survive about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a very effective, and informative wayraffle at the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715450749022752</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Nicola Pryce|title=The Willow KingCaptain's Girl|rating=34|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in the seventeenth centuryLast year, aiming to study more. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems to be returningBookbag reviewed, the weather and roads are awfulthoroughly enjoyed, he[[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's late – and his only friendDaughter]], a parakeetswashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time, won't even survive the first two days ashore. He's entering story focuses on a weird worldneighbour of the Polcarrow family, what's more – one imbued with evil smellsMiss Celia Cavendish, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideaswho has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. Can his modern ideasOne fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossHawa L Crickmore|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Across the Ocean|rating=54|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books in the seriesA young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. 305AD: Castus Aurelius Only recently he'd been a fit young man, following in the death prime of his predecessorlife, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the Roman forces at transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the Rhinenext fourteen days. HeUnfortunately Martin's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantine's son parents had died in a car crash and heir, for the character-building experiencethere were no siblings or other close relatives. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus aliveHis girlfriend, he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survivalCelia, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endwas not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752571524666971</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinM J Tjia|title= The VanishingShe Be Damned|rating=34|genre= Crime (Historical Fiction) |summary=1814. In the middle of London, 1863: prostitutes in the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White WindowsWaterloo area are turning up dead, a house shadowed in mystery their sexual organs mutilated and intrigueremoved. Living in this desolate household is Marcus TwentymanWhen another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a hard drinking loss and complicated man so it falls to courtesan and his sisterprofessional detective, the hardened widow Hester. Brought to White Windows is AnnaleighHeloise Chancey, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be investigate. With the new housekeeper assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the Twentyman's with truth. But when Amah is implicated in the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At firstbrutal plot, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises Heloise must reconsider whom she has become entangled in a web of conspiracy and dangercan trust, leaving her trapped and more alone than everbefore the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471151603178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonSarah Franklin|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Shelter|rating= 45

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a short time agosecret purpose.<br>Seppe, Matty Gilbie was a star an Italian prisoner of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for herwar, is haunted by his memories. As In the 'Cockney Canary'forest camp, her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was he finds a runaway successstrange kind of freedom. Unfortunately that success came with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controllingTheir meeting signals new beginnings. Bruised and battered from a particularly vicious beating from FrankBut as they are drawn together, Matty secretly makes her escape back to her home in Bermondsey, and the comfort of family and friendsworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Frank is not one to be crossed, howeverOld certainties are crumbling, and vows both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to do whatever it takes to win Matty back. Can she ever be truly freeprotect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733351785762990</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayJane Johnson|title=1588: A Calendar Court of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Lions|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction |summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore Kate Fordham arrived in the life sunlit city of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen tooGranada a year ago. As we travel through In the year with himshadow of the Alhambra, his recently wedded English wife Francesone of the most beautiful places on earth, doctor brother she works as a waitress serving tourists in law Giles a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and his sister Meghiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, the wise womana message, in a hand few could read, we also encounter some was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of his most interesting casespaper. In fact there's The paper was folded and pressed into one to match each of the yearAlhambra's big festivals: Candlemaswalls. There it has lain, Whitsunundisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, Lammasthe expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, Martinmas in a time of danger and Yuledesperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736351786694336</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoAngus Watson|title=The Last DebutanteYou Die When You Die|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going on: at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper in Finnbogi the nursery Boggy and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with being hunted by the guests. Even her elder sister, Lily, who's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guests'. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who the visitors are, but to no avail. All she's managed to work out greatest fighting force ever seen (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truthAmazonian Native Americans) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parents, Lord and Lady Wharton, are short Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash of money cultures and it's important that at least one potentially the end of their daughters makes a good marriagethe world. Six months later Lily is married to one When the Queen of the German, living in some style in Germany. Within a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlerknown world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X0356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Stef PenneyAlison Weir|title=Under a Pole StarSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2

|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on a press trip Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the North Pole; a trip that takes her back through her lifecourts of European royalty. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships Not only does this give them an education in the seas around Greenlandways of the elite, her it could also ensure a good marriage born . Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the ideas that one of ambition them, Anne, picks up and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team she led in the late 19th centuryas for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangement. This was Yet the reality turns out to be different, driving a trip that had many knock-wedge through her family on effects including death and lovea road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481162147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Morgan McCarthyMartha Conway|title= The House of BirdsFloating Theatre|rating= 4.5

|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of money making in the cityOhio, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of mysteryactors. She finds friends, when he cycled around and possibly the cobbled lanes promise of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornersmore. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - But cruising the border between the Confederate South and a fierce family feud - shethe 'free's determined to strip it, sell it and move onNorth is fraught with danger. For Oliver thoughthe sake of a debt that must be repaid, the house has an allureMay is compelled to transport secret passengers, and amongst the shelves under cover of a discardeddarkness, leather bound across the river and gilded volumeson, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from along the 1920sunderground railroad. So begins a quest But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.  And to discover save the identity lives of the authorothers, Sophia Louisshe must risk her own.. It is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722058471785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Jacquelyn BensonJenny Ashcroft|title= The Smoke HunterBeneath a Burning Sky

|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Victorian London but she is restricted by the strict social codes of the late nineteenthEgypt a bitter-centurysweet experience. She's a historianOn the one hand, a suffragetteshe has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and is years ahead of her time much to the chagrin of her male work colleagues at pair have formed a deep and loving bond. On the Public Records Office. After losing other, she has an unhappy marriage to her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned on domineering husband Alistair, who only married her former employer's deskto spite Clara, Ellie decides who had refused him previously. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected to take a chance horrific abuse at an adventurehis hands, daily. She packs her bags and sets off on As a journey to Central Americalady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means of escape, where only finding solace in the map shows the way to a legendary historical citycompany of her sister and friends. It's But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the expedition bustling streets of a life timeAlexandria, but little does Ellie know that a team it is up to Olivia to try and solve the mystery of fortune hunters are hot on her traildisappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722383460751565032</amazonuk>

|author= Angus MacDonaldConn Iggulden|title= Ardnish Was HomeDunstan: A NovelOne Man Will Change the Fate of England|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=A tiny peninsular lying on The young Dunstan shows no sign of the west coast sainthood he'll later attain. Son of Scotland, Ardnish provides a beautiful setting for a book that entices the reader Wessex thane and sent to devour it all in one sitting. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP to friends and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man to sign up monastery for the Lovat Scouts in 1915. What education, this isn't a tragically sweet story is to follow! Posted lad who responds to Gallipoli, brutal scenes of the realities of the First World War face the reader from page onediscipline. Tragically However an enquiring, the young DP is desperately wounded intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the medical support is woefully poorbig break. The Gallipoli Campaign seems doomed Lady Elflaed calls to fail. DP learns that the order has been given for the allied troops put a proposal to withdraw him after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle and the safety monks consider another in a long line of Maltaexcuses. Distressingly Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the rescue boats are unreliable and DP with other casualties and nurses, find themselves in an impossible position stranded in enemy territory. This fast paced story charts DPbook's progress title suggests. Whether we believe in escaping from the war zonemiracles or not, in recovering from his injuries, and, in the most desperate of circumstances, finding love.Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17802742620718181441</amazonuk>

|author= Lynn GuestSimon Edge|title= The Sword of HachimanHopkins Conundrum|rating= 45|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Set at the dawn of the Shogun eraTim 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 ''The Sword Wreck of Hachimanthe Deutschland'' follows two warrior clansnearby. In Victorian England, the Minamoto Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and the Tairacontradiction, as they struggle but discovers a calling for power under the Emperor. At first the Taira are in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated at birth, plan poetry that threatens to secretly reunite in order overrule his calling to defeat the Taira and avenge their Father's deathGod. The youngestAnd, Yoshitsune, is deemed most worthy and is granted the family heirloom, the Sword speaking of HachimanGod, the War God. Initiated into love and espionage by Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a young Taira noblewoman, and tested new world – only to find themselves in the ferocious hand to hand combat more trouble that is his birthright, we follow Yoshitsune as he meets his faithful retainer, Benkei, and as he goes behind the scenes of the Cloister court, where two extraordinary women enter his life…they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>18615156341785630334</amazonuk>

|author=Tracey WarrAnne O'Brien|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingThe Shadow Queen

|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys is the only legitimate child Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of Rhys ap Tewdr (thereroyal blood but she's from a surname to make hist-fict addicts smile!)family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, the last king 1st Earl of DeheubarthKent, Waleswas executed for his part in the infamous Montague plot. Playing on However Joan has grown up under the beach protection of her cousin, King Edward III with her brother one day she's captured by Norman soldiersall the advantages and attributes of a princess. From there sheYet, much to her mother's held hostage by the noble Montgomery familychagrin, loyal to King William Rufus. The standard of captivity in which Nesta is kept obedience isn't badone of these attributes. Lady Sybil is particularly kind to Joan's head strong feist takes heron a varied journey in life. Having said that, realising that Nest is still mourning the deaths of her father three husbands, five marriages (technically) and most of her siblings at the hands of men from that same household. There is an ulterior motive though. The object of Sybil's attentions is to make Nest a suitable wife son destined for the English nobility but shethrone means that it's already promised to also been one heck of a Welsh prince. Who will Nest actually marry and, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19076058191848455070</amazonuk>

|author=John G SmithPatricia Falvey|title=EugeneThe Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga

|summary=Eugene is Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in the youngest of 13 childrenHouse and those, born into a like Rosie's family for whom the future seems assured due , who have been brought up merely to their parents' butchery business in a small, close East Midlands communityserve them. But they can't see what lies ahead: war The days of innocence are coming to an end in the world and between the siblingsmany ways. For EugeneSoon, from his birth in as the 1920s through the war cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in Burma and trying to settle down afterwards, a nation that will never be the impact will last a lifetimesame again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP1786490625</amazonuk>

|author=Irina RatushinskayaElaine Everest|title=The OdessansButlins Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The PetrovsFresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, Geibers and Teselenkos may all live as she hides a secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in the Ukrainian town of Odessaher chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, but this is the dawn of the 20th century: changes are afoot and it turns out that will test their friendship as well as their existence. Be they Russian establishment, Russian Jews or Polish, each family will see tragedy alongside the birth pangs of have their own reasons for wanting a future Soviet statefresh start. Meanwhile, not Molly is shocked to mention discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the struggle for survival camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that will be more successful for some of them than for othersmay threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736372601447295536</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Clover MoonGeraint Jones|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonBlood Forest|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian EnglandFelix. The lucky one. Her father works at He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the factory grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the heavy work has taken a toll on his healthworst possible ways. He likes to drink an ale or two after workfelt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, spending money the family can barely affordRoman cavalry. CloverHe might have run, but he knew he's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megs, a wispy, shy childd never make it. Father married again - He stepped out to Mildred, a sharp-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of themface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575327310718184815</amazonuk>

|author= Graham MooreDominic Smith|title= The Last Days Painting of NightSara de Vos

|summary=If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The night-Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of our ancestors the way through. Sara is ending. Electric light one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is our futureof children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The man who controls it will not simply make an unimaginable fortune. He will not simply dictate politics… The man who controls electricity will control the very sun painting has been in the sky.'' Graham MooreMarty de Groot's latest novel family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is set stolen in 19th Century New York City following the War 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the Currents immediately after painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the discovery centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of electricitySydney's foremost fine art academics. Paul Cravath is a young lawyer Satisfying though those first descriptions are, recently graduated from Columbia Law School, who finds himself at we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the centre delicate chalk lines used by painters of the biggest lawsuit in American history Dutch Golden Age to date: who invented mark out the light bulbcomposition which will follow. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Caro Fraser|title= The Summer House Party|rating= 4. Enlisted to defend George Westinghouse against 312 lawsuits and 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a sum group of one billion dollars, Paul embarks on people meet at a seemingly impossible case to wincountry house party. Going up against the incredibly intelligent and extremely resourceful Thomas EdisonWithin three years, who has newspapers England will be at his disposal war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, but he resents the support wealth and easy savoir-faire of J.P. Morgan himselffellow guest, Paul is nonetheless determined to win by any means necessaryLatimer. In his unwavering quest for victorySurely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul encounters Nikola Tesla's beautiful sister, the eccentric geniusCharles Asher, who could have the power to stop EdisonJewish outsider, Alexander BellMadeleine, the inventor of the telephone restless and only one to beat Edison beforedissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as well as Agnes Huntingtona practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the astonishingly beautiful opera singerwar and beyond. With Or that the stakes so high, Paul first unforeseen event will discover be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Matthew Harffy|title= The Serpent Sword|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are a memory that everyone have entered into myth and the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and the new Christ. It is desperate 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 and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to win, setting in motion their own plans with disastrous consequencesbecome a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711566641786692406</amazonuk>

|author=Paula McLainAntonia Senior|title=Circling the SunThe Tyrant's Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Beryl Clutterbuck was just two when she was taken by Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her parents from Abingdon in England widowed brother, William, helping to Kenyacare for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a parliament of rebels refusing to go to a farm the electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at Njoro close quarters once he's effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor in the Rongai Valley in what was then the British East African Protectorate an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and which would become Kenyareligious factions. Her mother was dismayed - amazed that However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her father would have sold everything to get little more than a few mud huts - and it was only a couple of years before she returned home with Dickieat least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, BerylWilliam's brotherin law, leaving Beryl comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and her father to cope as best they couldrealises that the fight at sea is better than peace at home. Beryl grew up wild - largely brought up by the local tribespeople - and was catapulted into a disastrous marriage At least when she was just sixteen. It taught her one thing, though - she needed to take charge of her own destinyyou're privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18440883081782396616</amazonuk>