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|author= Grace MacallisterMinette Walters|title= The Magician's LieLast Hours|rating=4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is 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 most famous female illusionist estate of her dayDevelish, renowned for Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her notorious trick of sawing husband had ridden off to try and secure a man in half marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on stage. But one night the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she swaps ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her trademark saw husband and his entourage, for fear that they 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 axearea of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. When Arden Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's husband is found dead later that nightname, the answer seems clear, most whereabouts of all to young policeman Virgil Holt. Captured late Great-Uncle Einar… and taken into custody, all seems set for Ardenthat's swift confessionwithout looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. But she has a different story Edvard is determined to tell. Even handcuffed and alonesolve the puzzle, Arden is far a determination that will take him away from powerless, his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindinga remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999670857056069</amazonuk>

|author=Helen DunmoreToby Clements|title=Birdcage WalkKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached 1470 dawns and the zenith next chapters of his life's work: building a terrace the War of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon GorgeRoses are ready to play out. In a time of turbulence as France reaches King Edward thinks that the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spreadfuture has been settled but treachery is still lurking. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother Meanwhile Katherine and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and ideas of egalitarianism for and to a chance comment threaten allthey have, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawaretheir lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownP F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Witchfinder's SisterSir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)

|summary=England 16451592: Matthew Hopkins is good at Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his chosen career: seeking, testing and convicting those with creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the Devil West March in themCarlisle. His sister, Alice, doesnThe Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he't realise the full connotations of s left behind but it will have to become his actions until, widowed and pregnant, she returns homeworld. Alice is grateful to be allowed to live under MatthewIt's roof but then watches now his sinister finger of suspicion point in unexpected placesjob to bring law to the lawless. This is isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a man changed from heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the boy that Alice used job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't knowwhat he'll do about that yet either. She never then realised Meanwhile he soon realises that hethose who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making her the Witchfindert realise what they's Sisterre up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780331786694719</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title= The Valentine Housewith the Stained-Glass Window|rating= 4|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914Marianna, Sir Anthony Valentinean opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend political rally in the summer in their chalet, high in dying days of the French AlpsSoviet Union. ThereThis novel begins with both anger and hope, for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of Marianna's coffin is covered in the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants illegal blue and picked, it is believedyellow flag, and her death seems to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eyeherald the birth of a new nation. For Mathilde it But the day of her funeral is also the start day of her daughter's first period – a life-long entanglement girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with les anglais - strangeno mother to guide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, exciting people, far removed from 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the hard grind Battle of farmingWaterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appearCornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades half- disrupted French aristocrat haunted by warhis part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, accidents they become embroiled in a web of treachery and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the key to Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the mysteryFrench occupation. And in 1976In a country rife with traitors, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes Hester and Crow know it is impossible to visit, she must decide whether to use itplay such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040281786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= LarchfieldSeven Dead|rating= 54|genre= Literary Historical Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poetTed Lyte was petty criminal, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on but not usually the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challengedhousebreaking type. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by He lacked the prospect of a life that combines family and creativitycourage. She thinks she knows what being a personHowever, a wifeneeds must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a mother, meansshuttered window. ''.. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense he might find a bit of self, Dora comes to alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the realities of small town life suffocatingshutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogetherwoman. Another poet, she discovers, lived Fleeing the house in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Audenhorror, brilliant he is pursued and awkward at 24caught by a passing yachtsman, with his first book of poetry publishedThomas Hazeldean, should who also happens to be embarking on success a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and society in London. Insteada possible scoop), in 1930Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, fleeing including a broken engagementportrait shot through the heart, he takes an old cricket ball and a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - mysterious note written by one of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearsvictims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864819280712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Dinah JefferiesSalt Creek|titleauthor=Before the RainsLucy Treloar

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories The first chapter of India that have feed her desire to return. Therefore ''Salt Creek'' opens in 1930Chichester, England, following the death in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected and reasonably wealthy member of her husband, when the British government commission community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to photograph scenes of Indian lifeher adolescence, she jumps at spent on Salt Creek Station in the chanceremote South Australian Coorong region. What she doesnHester feels 't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the idea. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, has never felt so alive as is Jaythen, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlywhen we had so little''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870811910709417</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Jamie Ford|title=The Longest NightLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – At the World''let the dead rests Fair in 1962, and love it seems that all eyes are focused on the living''future. The problem with that, as a 96-year-old, is that there are too few living left, and so while Space Needle dominates the love remains she will go through her memories, taking a woozylandscape, diaphanous path through all the major events of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin filling people with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing anticipation about things to another place to wait for peacecome. One visitor, and wait for him in vainhowever, moving to Holland and finding new love, and so has his mind firmly focused on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalpast. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is waiting writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at least one of her two sons to visit, and then she will die…the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560850749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyNicola Pryce|title= VindolandaThe Captain's Girl|rating= 3.54

|summary= AD 98: in the northern fields of Britannia lies VindolandaLast year, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a Roman auxiliary base situated on swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the edge pleasure of reading the Roman worldmuch-anticipated sequel. Far from the prosperity and decadence of RomeThis time, the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against the destruction story focuses on a neighbour of Rome and its armies. In the midst of this destruction is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been given engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, she runs away to the task of keeping Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the peace in this desolate edge pivotal events of the world. But life in Roman Britain is full of danger and betrayal at every turn, and Ferox knows it will take more than courage to overcome what lies aheadthat night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746841782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Hawa L Crickmore|title=The Yellow HouseAcross the Ocean|rating=34|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=If you were the needy kindA young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, would you really join in the drumming-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get was diagnosed with a feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried rare genetic disorder which required a dead dog down off bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a mountain? The main character in this novel doessibling. But Only recently he has something that will really get him noted'd been a fit young man, well-thought-in the prime oflife, included. He has come to but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the south of France to set up an artists' collective, where transplant he can live would be paralysed for life and work alongside his counterparts, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful artmight be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. In fact a much-respected guest is on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guestUnfortunately Martin's name is, after all, Gauguinparents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. The main character isHis girlfriend, of courseCelia, Vincent van Gogh…was not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19073205631524666971</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)M J Tjia|title=Retribution RoadShe Be Damned|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction ) |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manLondon, he was something else1863: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was him. Working as a soldier for the East India Company prostitutes in the ruralWaterloo area are turning up dead, remotetheir sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in fears grow that the 1850s, he's tasked with taking killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy loss and so it falls to try courtesan and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go well – to start withprofessional detective, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowsHeloise Chancey, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having investigate. With the knowledge assistance of the mission he needs firsther trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, only for all hell Heloise inches closer to break loosethe truth. But get back he doeswhen Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-onHeloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunSarah Franklin|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Shelter|rating=3.5

|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; it needs a warrior who Connie Granger has convictionescaped her bombed-out city home, heart and honour. Hakan has all these finding refuge in abundance, but he didnthe Women't get them easilys Timber Corps. In For her, this coming remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of age talewar, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he goes on finds a quest to find himself after experiencing strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the most tremendous of betrayalsworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choice. <br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999411785762990</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaJane Johnson|title=The Sins Court of SoldiersLions|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Anson Scott wants to join Kate Fordham arrived in the British army and World War I for sunlit city of Granada a different reason than year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most of his fellow Americansbeautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. HeShe pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a journalist wanting the uncensored inside story false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to send back home; -face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a deadly enterprise asmessage, if the Germans don't get himin a hand few could read, the Brits may deem him was inscribed in blood on a spystolen scrap of paper. Unperturbed he carries his plan through The paper was folded and finds himself on pressed into one of the French front in 1916Alhambra's walls. He There it has an ally in British officer David Alexanderlain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, which is just as well since not all his enemies are across no man's landthe expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. The two men have Born of love, in a lot in commontime of danger and desperation, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approachesfragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901821786694336</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanAngus Watson|title=Viper's Blood (Master of War)You Die When You Die|rating=54|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bowman Finnbogi the Boggy and commander Thomas Blackstone is one his tribe of Edward III's mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once againfighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). However, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for Vikings meet Native Americans in a greater chance clash of starvation amongst the armies. There is a light at cultures and potentially the end of the tunnel though. Blackstone is to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French King's daughter Isabelle to Milan and her weddingworld. Having said that, When the light at the end Queen of the tunnel known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be an oncoming lanceso rosy. Isabelle's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughter. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744630356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsAlison Weir|title=CorpusSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose and Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the murder courts of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedEuropean royalty. However Not only does this is England give them an education in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflictways of the elite, assisted or prevented by it could also ensure a royal crisis (depending on which side yougood marriage. Unfortunately he hasn're t reckoned on)the ideas that one of them, Anne, picks up and as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangement. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into Yet the middle of this accidentally reality turns out to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough be different, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to ensure he's not walking awaydark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinMartha Conway|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepThe Floating Theatre|rating= 45

|summary=ParisWhen young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, February 1887she 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. She finds friends, and work on possibly the foundations promise of Eiffelmore. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free's daring tower North is about to beginfraught with danger. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs For the sake of the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearbydebt that must be repaid, chances May is compelled to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallacetransport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and his own foundations start to shifton, along the underground railroad. Over the next two years But as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de Mars, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and EmileMay's love for each othersecrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her. In a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able  And to break free save the lives of others, she must risk her oppressive future, and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?own... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917221785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournJenny Ashcroft|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)Beneath a Burning Sky

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to be an investigator by professionher childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. She wasOn the one hand, she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, first and foremost, the pair have formed a scientist; a lepidopterist deep and adventuress who travelled loving bond. On the world looking for exciting butterfly specimens. Howeverother, when she has an unhappy marriage to her latest expedition was cancelled due to an unfortunate incident with a giant tortoisedomineering husband Alistair, Veronica and who only married her taxidermist friend Stoker took up the challenge of a murder investigation as an interesting diversion. The case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforthspite Clara, an art patronwho had refused him previously. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, had been accused of murdering with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his pregnant mistresshands, Artemisiadaily. He was discovered at the sceneAs a lady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means of escape, covered only finding solace in the company of her blood sister and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crimefriends. He would hang by But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the end bustling streets of the week if Veronica Alexandria, it is up to Olivia to try and Stoker could not find solve the 'real' killermystery of her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761580751565032</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesConn Iggulden|title=Counting Dunstan: One Man Will Change the CostFate of England|rating=4.5

|summary=The year is 1794 and we meet our young protagonist, Maria, in desperate circumstancesDunstan shows no sign of the sainthood he'll later attain. Alone Son of a Wessex thane and terrifiedsent to a monastery for education, she has concluded that her only option is this isn't a lad who responds to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river watersdiscipline. Months previously However an enquiring, she was cruelly violated by intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the master of the house where big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she worked considers to be a miracle and now, the monks consider another in the advanced stages a long line of her pregnancy, the future seems bleakexcuses. Luckily, a pair of gypsy women find Maria Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and take her holding responsible positions in. Following a traumatic labourtheir courts, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, her baby is goneas the book's title suggests. Alone again Whether we believe in the miracles or not, Maria is free to start Dunstan certainly had quite a new life. With a clever disguise, she becomes the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' and takes a position as a housekeeper for the village rector.!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991390718181441</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerSimon Edge|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunHopkins Conundrum|rating=4.5|genre=Historical 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 ''The word Wreck of the Deutschland'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have nearby. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a backward attitude life full of confusion and outlookcontradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. But what do we know of the original Neanderthals from over 200And,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge speaking of anthropologistsGod, archaeologists and historians with the story of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to survive find themselves in a very effective, and informative way.more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715451785630334</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Anne O'Brien|title=The Willow KingShadow Queen|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Laurentius. HeBorn in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a scholar newly arrived in Estonia family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the seventeenth century, aiming to study moreinfamous Montague plot. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems to be returningHowever Joan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, King Edward III with all the weather advantages and roads are awfulattributes of a princess. Yet, hemuch to her mother's late – and his only friendchagrin, a parakeet, wonobedience isn't even survive the first two days ashoreone of these attributes. HeJoan's entering head strong feist takes her on a weird world, what's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasvaried journey in life. Can his modern ideasHaving said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) and thinking about a son destined for the soul, bear him through his course?English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401848455070</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossPatricia Falvey|title=The Mask Girls of Command (Twilight of Empire)Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5

|summary= WarningIreland 1900: spoilers ahead for previous books 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 series. 305AD: Castus AureliusHouse and those, following the death of his predecessorlike Rosie's family, has who have been promoted brought up merely to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of the Roman forces at the Rhineserve them. He's also been ordered The days of innocence are coming to take Crispus, Constantine's son and heir, for the character-building experiencean end in many ways. That complicates matters Soon, as when Castus isnthe cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there't trying to keep Crispus alive, hell be more than steps on society's finding it difficult to increase his ladder between them as each must discover their own chance of survival, especially considering how way in a nation that will never be the last Rhine commander met his endsame again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752571786490625</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinElaine Everest|title= The VanishingButlins Girls|rating=34

|summary=1814Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. In Behind the middle of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White Windowssmiles and confident appearance, she hides a house shadowed secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in mystery her chalet-mates Bunty and intrigue. Living in this desolate household is Marcus TwentymanPlum, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a hard drinking and complicated man and his sisterfresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the hardened widow Hestercamp. Brought to White Windows Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is Annaleigh, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be he working at the new housekeeper to the Twentyman's with the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At firstcamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled in a web of conspiracy Molly and danger, leaving her trapped new friends face new threats and more alone than everdangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516031447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonGeraint Jones|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Blood Forest|rating= 45

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only a short time ago, Matty Gilbie was a star of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for herFelix. The lucky one. As the 'Cockney Canary He doesn', her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into movies was a runaway success. Unfortunately that success came with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money the grove and turned violent and controlling. Bruised finds twelve of his comrades butchered and battered from a particularly vicious beating from Frank, Matty secretly makes her escape back to her home mutilated in Bermondsey, and the comfort of family and friendsworst possible ways. Frank is not one to be crossed He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, howeverRoman cavalry. He might have run, and vows but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to do face whatever it takes to win Matty backcame next. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733350718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayDominic Smith|title=1588: A Calendar The Last Painting of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Sara de Vos|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A lot If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of crime happens Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore 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 life main contours of law lecturer his characters and local investigator Hew Cullen toothe three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. As we travel through Sara is one of the few women artists of the year with himperiod and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in law Giles Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and his sister Meg, he is the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting casespatent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. In fact thereEllie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's one to match each of foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the yearauthor's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yuleequivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoCaro Fraser|title=The Last DebutanteSummer House Party|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In the gloriously hot summer of 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going on: , a group of people meet at thirteen a country house party. Within three years old she's been banished to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with the guests. Even her elder sister, LilyEngland will be at war, but for now, who's sixteen time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is dining with these unnamed 'guests'. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who clever and good-looking, but he resents the visitors arewealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, but to no availPaul Latimer. All Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's managed to work out (wellbeautiful sister, Charles Asher, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parentsJewish outsider, Lord and Lady WhartonMadeleine, are short of money restless and itdissatisfied with her role as children's important that at least one of nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their daughters makes host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a good marriagepractised seducer. Six months later Lily is married to one of As these guests gather, none has any inkling the Germanchoices they make will have fateful consequences, living in some style in Germanylasting through the war and beyond. Within Or that the first unforeseen event will be a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitler.shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X1786691485</amazonuk>

|author=Stef Penney|title=Under a Pole Star|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on a press trip to the North Pole; a trip that takes her back through her life. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships in the seas around Greenland, her marriage born of ambition and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team she led in the late 19th century. This was a trip that had many knock-on effects including death and love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481162</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan McCarthyMatthew Harffy|title= The House of BirdsSerpent Sword

|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that heIt's suited to a life of money making in the city, AD 633 and that he doesn't miss Albion is a childhood spent in pursuit divided island made up of mystery, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornerspetty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. When his girlfriend Kate inherits Romans are a derelict house - memory that have entered into myth and a fierce family feud - she's determined to strip it, sell it and move on. For Oliver though, the house has an allure, and amongst souls of Albion are torn between the shelves of a discarded, leather bound old Gods and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920snew Christ. So begins a quest to discover It is in this world that we follow the identity adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the author, Sophia Louisclassic hero’s journey. It is Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a portrait brutal rite of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story that will shape passage as he hunts the future killer of the abandoned house - his brother and of Oliver - foreverseeks to become a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722058471786692406</amazonuk>

|author= Jacquelyn BensonAntonia Senior|title= The Smoke HunterTyrant's Shadow|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living in Victorian London but she is restricted by the strict social codes of the late nineteenth-century. SheWarning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's a historianDaughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William, a suffragettehelping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, and the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is years ahead increasingly annoyed with a parliament of her time much rebels refusing to go to the chagrin of her male work colleagues electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at the Public Records Office. After losing her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned on her former employerclose quarters once he's desk, Ellie decides effectively forced to take a chance at become Cromwell's legal advisor in an adventureatmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. She packs her bags and sets off on However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a journey to Central Americacharismatic preacher, where the map shows the way to a legendary historical cityall becomes clearer for her at least. It Meanwhile Sam Challoner, William's brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that the expedition of a life time, but little does Ellie fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know that a team of fortune hunters are hot on her trailwho your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722383461782396616</amazonuk>