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|author= Philip KerrMinette Walters|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12The Last Hours|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking NazisDorset. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the Social Democratic Party)estate of Develish, he understood that Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof people who lived in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs demesne after her husband had ridden off to do it quickly try and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but secure a marriage for his owndaughter. He is given exactly one week to apprehend Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the suspect, estate and he hopes when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that with the help of estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his friend Friedrich Korschentourage, an investigator with for fear that they would bring the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckydisease to her people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17842964811760632139</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan CollishawLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title= The Song Sixteen Trees of the StorkSomme|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has achieved a rare feat – a novel set amidst 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 name, the horrors whereabouts of Nazi tyranny late Great-Uncle Einar… and that does not shy 's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from human suffering, but does not drown in it eitherhis native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850791900857056069</amazonuk>

|author=Alan KennedyToby Clements|title=A Time to Tell LiesKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues 1470 dawns and the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In next chapters of the autumn War of 1942, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry the Roses are among the men and women picked up and taken ready to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skillsplay out. After this first encounter, Alex King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine againstill lurking. The spy's life is dangerous Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and unpredictable, after a chance comment threaten all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passportincluding their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=Alex NyeP F Chisholm|title=For My SinsGuns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5

|summary=15861592: Mary Stuart, Queen Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Scots, has time Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to look back over her past life as she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth Ibecome Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. MaryThe Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's life hasn't been one of totally pampered royaltyleft behind but it will have to become his world. Growing up in France, away from her mother, widowed and then returning It's now his job to Scotland bring law to claim the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started earlylawless. The tensions between Mary the woman, Mary the Catholic and Mary the political force continue through three marriages, This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an unsolved murder affinity and the thwarted desire a heritage of crime to serve her peoplesome degree. Now itFor Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he's come ll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to this prison cell be on his side are plotting against him but while therethey don's life, theret realise what they's still hope…re up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871786694719</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title= The Magician's LieHouse with the Stained-Glass Window

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached Marianna, an opera singer in the zenith soon-to-be Ukrainian city of his life's work: building Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking political rally in the Avon Gorge. In a time dying days of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spreadSoviet Union. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother novel begins with both anger and step-father both believe hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in propagating pamphlets the illegal blue and ideas of egalitarianism for yellow flag, and her death seems to all, including womenherald the birth of a new nation. In other words, they think nothing But the day of spreading ideas her funeral is also the day of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, thather daughter's not Lizzie's only problem… there is first period – a girl who must learn how to be a darkness woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her husband's past of which she's unawarealong the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919594030857057138</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownK J Whittaker|title=The Witchfinder's SisterFalse Lights|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins is good at his chosen career: seekingCornwall, testing and convicting those with 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Devil in them. His sister, Alice, doesn't realise Duke of Wellington at the full connotations Battle of Waterloo, and his actions untilex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, widowed and pregnantyoung heiress Hester escapes with Crow, she returns home. Alice is grateful to be allowed to live under MatthewWellington's roof but then watches former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his sinister finger of suspicion point part in unexpected placesthe catastrophic defeat. This is Together, they become embroiled in a man changed web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the boy that Alice used Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to knowplay such a game as this for long.. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making her the Witchfinder's Sister.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780331786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= The Valentine HouseSeven Dead

|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914Ted Lyte was petty criminal, Sir Anthony Valentinebut not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, a keen mountaineerneeds must, arrives with and whilst feeling down on his family luck he decided to spend the summer in their chalet, high in the French Alpstry his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''... There, for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one he might find a bit of the alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and pickedTed does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it is believed, to ensure they dondefinitely isn't catch Sir Anthonywhat he's roving eyed hoped. For Mathilde it is the start of In a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind of farming. Except she soon locked room he finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with seven dead bodies; six men and a curiously absent daughter no one talks aboutwoman. It will be decades - disrupted by warFleeing the house in horror, accidents he is pursued and caught by a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And in 1976passing yachtsman, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visitThomas Hazeldean, she must decide whether who also happens to use itbe a journalist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Polly Clark|title= Larchfield|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=I ItFascinated by Ted's early summer when story (and a young poet, Dora Fieldingpossible scoop), moves Hazeldean decides to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland investigate this curious case and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect its assortment of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a personodd clues, including a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As portrait shot through the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocatingheart, an old cricket ball and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book mysterious note written by one of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet 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 Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the seriessmiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. 305AD: Castus AureliusShe soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, following the death of his predecessorand it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, has been promoted Molly is shocked to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the Roman forces camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at the Rhinecamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraint Jones|title= Blood Forest|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix. The lucky one. Hedoesn's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantine's son t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and heir, for mutilated in the character-building experienceworst possible ways. That complicates matters as He felt even less lucky when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus alivethe soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he's finding d never make it difficult . He stepped out to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752570718184815</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinDominic Smith|title= The VanishingLast Painting of Sara de Vos|rating=35

|summary=1814. In If you find the middle techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of the Yorkshire Moors Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in an isolated spot lies White Windows, how to work up a house shadowed canvas in mystery and intriguestages. Living in this desolate household is Marcus Twentyman Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, a hard drinking Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and complicated man and his sister, the hardened widow Hesterthree time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. Brought to White Windows Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is Annaleighof children skating on a frozen canal, a young runaway from London who her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has come to Yorkshire to be the new housekeeper to the Twentymanbeen in Marty de Groot's with family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the hope patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of leaving the painting in her painful past behind postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy herreputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. At Satisfying though those firstdescriptions are, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled in a web we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of conspiracy and danger, leaving her trapped and more alone than everthe Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471151603192526680X</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonCaro Fraser|title=Bourbon Creams The Summer House Party|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and Tattered Dreams (good-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Matthew Harffy|title= The Factory Girls)Serpent Sword|rating= 4.5

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only It's AD 633 and Albion is a short time ago, Matty Gilbie was divided island made up of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are a star memory that have entered into myth and the souls of Albion are torn between the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for her. As old Gods and the 'Cockney Canary', her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was a runaway successnew Christ. Unfortunately It is in this world that success came with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controllingwe follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Bruised and battered from a particularly vicious beating Beobrand moves from Frank, Matty secretly makes her escape back wide-eyed teenager to her home in Bermondsey, hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the comfort killer of family his brother and friends. Frank is not one seeks to be crossed, however, and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty backbecome a true warrior. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733351786692406</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayAntonia Senior|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)The Tyrant's Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen tooWarning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''. As we travel through the year Patience lives with himher widowed brother, his recently wedded English wife FrancesWilliam, doctor brother in law Giles and helping to care for his sister Megson Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, the wise woman, we also encounter some times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a parliament of his most interesting casesrebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratification. In fact thereWilliam sees this problem at close quarters once he's one effectively forced to match each of the yearbecome Cromwell's big festivals: Candlemaslegal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacher, Whitsunall becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, LammasWilliam's brother in law, Martinmas comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and Yulerealises that the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736351782396616</amazonuk>