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|author=Alex NyeMinette Walters|title=For My SinsThe Last Hours|rating=4.5

|summary=1586: Mary StuartIn 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, Queen the disease rages through the country. On the estate of ScotsDevelish, has time to look back over her past life as she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's life hasn't been one Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of totally pampered royalty. Growing up the people who lived in France, away from the demesne after her mother, widowed husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and then returning to Scotland to claim when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the throne before plague she was even 19ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary the woman, Mary the Catholic husband and Mary the political force continue through three marriageshis entourage, an unsolved murder and for fear that they would bring the thwarted desire disease to serve her people. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871760632139</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title= The Magician's LieSixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is While his grandfather lived the most famous female illusionist past was an area of her day, renowned certainty for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stageEdvard. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe 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 husband is found dead later that nightbirthplace, his mother's name, 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't realise what they'd re up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be capable Ukrainian city of killing hundreds Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days of people the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and making hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the Witchfinderday of her daughter's Sisterfirst period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780330857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonK J Whittaker|title= The Valentine HouseFalse Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914Cornwall, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the summer in their chalet, high in course of history? Napoleon has crushed the French Alps. There, for Duke of Wellington at the first timeBattle of Waterloo, fourteenand his ex-yearwife Josephine presides over French-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and picked, it is believedyoung heiress Hester escapes with Crow, to ensure they don't catch Sir AnthonyWellington's roving eye. For Mathilde it is the start of former intelligence officer, a lifehalf-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from French aristocrat haunted by his part in the hard grind of farmingcatastrophic defeat. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than Together, they appear, with become embroiled in a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents 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 !|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Edge|title= The Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a clever disguisefailing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, she becomes who composed ''The Wreck of the dowdy Deutschland'Miss Dinchope' nearby. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and takes contradiction, but discovers a position as a housekeeper calling for the village rectorpoetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God.And, speaking of 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>17858991391785630334</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerAnne O'Brien|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunShadow Queen

|summary=The word Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have s from a backward attitude and outlookfamily tainted by treachery. But what do we know Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the original Neanderthals from over 200,000 years ago? infamous Montague plot. Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds However Joan has grown up under the knowledge protection of anthropologistsher cousin, archaeologists and historians King Edward III with all the story advantages and attributes of Strong Armsa princess. Yet, his family and their struggle much to survive her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in a very effectivelife. Having said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) and informative way.a son destined for the English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715451848455070</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Patricia Falvey|title=The Willow KingGirls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet LaurentiusIreland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. HeRosie soon comes to know better as there's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia social chasm between those who live in the seventeenth centuryHouse and those, like Rosie's family, aiming who have been brought up merely to study moreserve them. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems The days of innocence are coming to be returningan end in many ways. Soon, as the weather and roads are awfulcry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, hethere'll be more than steps on society's late – and his only friend, ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a parakeet, won't even survive nation that will never be the first two days ashore. He's entering a weird world, what's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideassame again. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401786490625</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossElaine Everest|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Butlins Girls|rating=54|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in the seriesSkegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following Behind the death of his predecessorsmiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; she has been promoted taken the job to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of the Roman forces escape escalating problems at the Rhinehome. He's also been ordered to take CrispusShe soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, Constantine's son and heirit turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, for Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the character-building experiencecamp. That complicates matters Is he really as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus alive, suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survivalworking at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endMolly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752571447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinGeraint Jones|title= The VanishingBlood Forest|rating=35

|summary=1814Felix. In The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the middle grove and finds twelve of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White Windows, a house shadowed in mystery his comrades butchered and intrigue. Living mutilated in this desolate household is Marcus Twentyman, a hard drinking and complicated man and his sister, the hardened widow Hesterworst possible ways. Brought to White Windows is Annaleigh He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be the new housekeeper to the Twentyman's with the hope of leaving her painful past behind herRoman cavalry. At firstHe might have run, 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 everhe knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516030718184815</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonDominic Smith|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating= 45

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The 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 short seventeenth century Dutch painting, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time ago, Matty Gilbie was a star periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for herway through. As Sara is one of the few women artists of the 'Cockney Canary', her melodic singing voice period and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was painting is of children skating on a runaway successfrozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. Unfortunately that success came with a price: MattyThe painting has been in Marty de Groot's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money family since before Isaac Newton was born and turned violent and controllinghe is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Bruised Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and battered from in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a particularly vicious beating from Frank, Matty secretly makes her escape back gathering storm which threatens to destroy her home in Bermondseyreputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, and we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the comfort delicate chalk lines used by painters of family and friends. Frank is not one the Dutch Golden Age to be crossed, however, and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty backmark out the composition which will follow. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784973335192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayCaro Fraser|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)The Summer House Party|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction |summary=A lot In the gloriously hot summer of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life 1936, a group of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen toopeople meet at a country house party. As we travel through the year with himWithin three years, England will be at war, his recently wedded English wife Francesbut for now, doctor brother in law Giles time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and his sister Meggood-looking, but he resents the wise womanwealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, we also encounter some of his most interesting casesPaul Latimer. In fact thereSurely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's one to match each of beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the yearJewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role as children's big festivals: Candlemasnanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, Whitsunbut secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, Lammasnone has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, Martinmas lasting through the war and Yulebeyond.Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736351786691485</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoMatthew Harffy|title=The Last DebutanteSerpent Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand whatIt's going on: at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else AD 633 and Albion is dining downstairs with the guests. Even her elder sister, Lily, a divided island made up of petty warlords who's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guests'. Kit has tapped all her usual sources want to find out who the visitors are, be treated like honourable royalty but to no availact like gangsters. All she's managed to work out (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is Romans are a memory that have entered into myth and the visitors souls of Albion are Germantorn between the old Gods and the new Christ. Kit's parents, Lord and Lady Wharton, are short of money and it's important It is in this world that at least one we follow the adventures of their daughters makes a good marriageBeobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Six months later Lily is married Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to one hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the German, living in some style in Germany. Within killer of his brother and seeks to become a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlertrue warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X1786692406</amazonuk>

|author=Stef PenneyAntonia Senior|title=Under a Pole StarThe Tyrant's Shadow

|summary=1948Warning: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on a press trip spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William, helping to the North Pole; a trip that takes her back through her lifecare for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships in Despite the seas around GreenlandCivil war ending, her marriage born of ambition and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team she led in the late 19th centurytimes are still uncertain. This was Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a trip that had many knock-on effects including death and love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481162</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan McCarthy|title= The House parliament of Birds|rating= 4rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratification.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that William sees this problem at close quarters once he's suited effectively forced to a life of money making become Cromwell's legal advisor in the city, an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, religious factions. However when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of OxfordPatience comes across Shadrick Simpson, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - she's determined to strip itcharismatic preacher, sell it and move onall becomes clearer for her at least. For Oliver though Meanwhile Sam Challoner, the house has an allureWilliam's brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and amongst the shelves of a discarded, leather bound and gilded volumes, he discovers one realises that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920sfight at sea is better than peace at home. So begins a quest to discover the identity of the author, Sophia Louis. It At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy 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>14722058471782396616</amazonuk>